Persistent naming of devices is important for instances such as booting where a particular hardware device needs to get mapped to the same name each time. To get the UUID of a block device, use scsi_id. To get the UUID of a file system for something like grub.conf, try blkid.

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The filesystem’s view of the world
The filesystem is responsible for a number of things, like permissions and name lookup, but none of those has an impact on where it puts blocks on a drive. Once we remove all of that, we can consider the file system to be an “Object …

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