blkid

To list UUID for all your storage devices, run ”’blkid -c /dev/null”’

blkid - locate/print block device attributes

Example

boby@bizhat ~ $ sudo blkid -c /dev/null
[sudo] password for boby: 
/dev/sda1: UUID="c17be3a7-dd65-448a-8930-b9d0369c6575" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="c72e257f-b210-4f81-b1de-e5130d61454e" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="ab289ee4-fa14-4da0-af60-a9c4360327b2" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="b1ebdc91-64a8-46b0-a9ee-8e71c659bba0" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda8: LABEL="Drive J" UUID="01CE4B5BC914BE10" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="67fd4ee7-1123-433c-aab4-ed877051976d" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb5: UUID="28f4e904-ecfa-4a9f-b632-60c58c826cfc" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb6: UUID="19ca47a8-d894-44ff-a7af-77fa16635e98" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Drive E" UUID="709409F99409C298" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdc2: LABEL="Drive C" UUID="BC108B2C108AECA8" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdc5: LABEL="Drive D" UUID="2ED4A94DD4A917DB" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdc6: LABEL="New Volume" UUID="FEA6945FA69419EB" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdc7: LABEL="Drive G" UUID="A4A08A44A08A1CC4" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sr1: LABEL="Idea Net Setter" TYPE="iso9660" 
boby@bizhat ~ $ 

To mount /dev/sda5, i added following to /etc/fstab

UUID=b1ebdc91-64a8-46b0-a9ee-8e71c659bba0 /home/boby/store ext4  defaults  0 2

It is same as

/dev/sda5 /home/boby/store ext4  defaults  0 2

Linux Commands > hdd