[clue-tech] Detecting media change

David L. Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Fri May 2 13:10:28 MDT 2008


> > blkid /dev/sda1 | sed -e 's/^.*UUID="\([^"]*\)".*$/\1/'
> 
> If you really like sed, this may be a little cleaner:
> 
> sed -e 's/^.*UUID="//' -e 's/".*$//'
> 
> but
> 
> blkid -o value /dev/sda1 | head -1
> 
> works for me.

Very nice, Dave.  You pimped Bacula; have you compared it to BackupPC?  That's the only
one that sorta tempts me to leave behind my growing pile of steaming script.

David L. Willson
Trainer/Engineer/Consultant
MCT, MCSE, Linux+
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