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How to Find UUID of Disk Storage with a Simple Command

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Gagan Mishra
Mar 1, 2022

Most likely, you are looking for a solution to auto-mount disk storage whenever the system gets power on instead of doing it manually. Of course, it is not feasible to mount a location every time, and what if your application or program crashes because of a missing location?

So, to avoid this type of conflict, we can leverage /etc/fstab file to automount the disk, but the question is, what happens when it asks for a UUID.

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Gagan Mishra

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