In most modern Linuxes, if you look in /etc/fstab you will see something like:
UUID=27fb9d06-8122-4a53-9930-97bd9fa57221 /usr ext4 defaults 1 1
This is not very helpful if you’re trying to figure out where your /usr directory is mounted… So how can you convert the UUID of a drive partition to the good old familiar /dev device name?
One way to do it is to use the findfs command – type “findfs ” then copy and paste the “UUID=…” part from fstab:
$ findfs UUID=ec31bc4a-093b-45ca-ac2d-8eb14885964d
/dev/sdb2
$ _
Another way to find out which device a UUID refers to is to ls - /dev/disk/by-uuid/
And the reverse problem – how to find out the UUID of a device is accomplished by the blkid command:
$ blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: UUID="45f2c200-bd5f-4436-b523-2beef9f628c7" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
$ _
On some distros you may also type:
$ sudo vol_id /dev/hdb5
to get the UUID of a partition…
Thank you, helped me a lot.