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| 34 | .Dd February 8, 2009 |
| 35 | .Os |
| 36 | .Dt UUIDS 5 |
| 37 | .Sh NAME |
| 38 | .Nm uuids |
| 39 | .Nd UUIDs and their symbolic names |
| 40 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| 41 | .Nm /etc/defaults/uuids |
| 42 | .Nm /etc/uuids |
| 43 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| 44 | A |
| 45 | .Nm |
| 46 | file contains a list of UUIDs (universally unique identifiers) and their symbolic names. |
| 47 | .Pp |
| 48 | Each line in a |
| 49 | .Nm |
| 50 | file, other than comment lines that begin with a |
| 51 | .Sq # , |
| 52 | specifies a UUID and its symbolic name. |
| 53 | The first field is the UUID, the second field is the name, |
| 54 | they are separated by tabs or spaces. |
| 55 | A UUID is a 128 bit number written in hexadecimal and formatted like this: |
| 56 | 01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef, |
| 57 | i.e. 16 hexadecimal digits, with dash |
| 58 | .Pq Sq - , |
| 59 | after digit no. 8, 12, 16 and 20. |
| 60 | A name is a text string enclosed in double quotes |
| 61 | .Pq Sq \&" . |
| 62 | .Sh EXAMPLES |
| 63 | A UUID with name |
| 64 | .Dq test UUID : |
| 65 | .Bd -literal -offset indent |
| 66 | # test uuids(5) file |
| 67 | 061ceb5d-5beb-11dd-924c-010e0cd0bad1 "test UUID" |
| 68 | .Ed |
| 69 | .Sh FILES |
| 70 | .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/defaults/uuids" -compact |
| 71 | .It Pa /etc/defaults/uuids |
| 72 | A list of UUIDs and their symbolic names provided by the OS vendor. |
| 73 | .It Pa /etc/uuids |
| 74 | A list of UUIDs and their symbolic names provided by the |
| 75 | system administrator. |
| 76 | .El |
| 77 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
| 78 | .Xr uuid 3 |
| 79 | .Sh AUTHORS |
| 80 | This manual page was written by |
| 81 | .An Thomas Nikolajsen . |