gnome-disks should display a copyable disk UUID
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Bug Description
I needed to get the UUID of my swap partition (to compare and/or supply it to the `swapon` command). So I ran Ubuntu `disks`. When I click my swap partition, Disks shows some useful info about the partition (which I can copy, yay, but only field-by-field, boo!). But the panel doesn't show the device UUID. It should.
As a poor workaround, if I choose gears icon > Edit partition, the dialog has a Type drop-down with "Linux Swap (0657fblah-
The advanced workaround is to root around in /dev/disk/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jun 8 15:33:02 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-27 (42 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
To correct myself, the UUID in gears icon > Edit partition > Type dropdown "Linux Swap (0657fblah- blah-blah) " seems to be the UUID for the type of partition, not the partition found on disk. So there seems to be no way to determine disk UUID from gnome-disks, let alone copy it.