How can I list Ubuntu disks by a unique identifier?

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS inside a VM running on VMware Workstation 8.0.4.

When I try to view the disks attached to the machine by their ID nothing shows up but the CD-ROM drive. I listing the disk by running ls -la /dev/disk/by-id

I need a way to uniquely identify the disk so I create a ZFS pool to test. They recommend disk by-id but anything would work I guess.

Any idea how I can get something to work?

1 Answer

Try:

ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Also running the following (as root), will print the UUID of a certain partition:

blkid /dev/sda0

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