UUIDS(5)

NAME
uuids - UUIDs and their symbolic names

SYNOPSIS
/etc/defaults/uuids
/etc/uuids

DESCRIPTION
A uuids 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
uuid(3)

AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Thomas Nikolajsen.