NAME
uuids —
UUIDs and their symbolic
names
SYNOPSIS
/etc/defaults/uuids |
/etc/uuids |
DESCRIPTION
Auuids file contains a list of UUIDs (universally
unique identifiers) and their symbolic names.
Each line in a uuids file, other than
comment lines that begin with a ‘#’, specifies a UUID and its
symbolic name. The first field is the UUID, the second field is the name,
they are separated by tabs or spaces. A UUID is a 128 bit number written in
hexadecimal and formatted like this: 01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef,
i.e. 16 hexadecimal digits, with dash (‘-’), after digit no.
8, 12, 16 and 20. A name is a text string enclosed in double quotes
(‘"’).
FILES
- /etc/defaults/uuids
- A list of UUIDs and their symbolic names provided by the OS vendor.
- /etc/uuids
- A list of UUIDs and their symbolic names provided by the system administrator.
EXAMPLES
A UUID with name “test UUID”:
# test uuids(5) file 061ceb5d-5beb-11dd-924c-010e0cd0bad1 "test UUID"
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Thomas Nikolajsen.