1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2008 3.\" The DragonFly Project. All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in 13.\" the documentation and/or other materials provided with the 14.\" distribution. 15.\" 3. Neither the name of The DragonFly Project nor the names of its 16.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 17.\" from this software without specific, prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 20.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 21.\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS 22.\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 23.\" COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 24.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 25.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 26.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED 27.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, 28.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT 29.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd February 8, 2009 33.Dt UUIDS 5 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm uuids 37.Nd UUIDs and their symbolic names 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm /etc/defaults/uuids 40.Nm /etc/uuids 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42A 43.Nm 44file contains a list of UUIDs (universally unique identifiers) and their symbolic names. 45.Pp 46Each line in a 47.Nm 48file, other than comment lines that begin with a 49.Sq # , 50specifies a UUID and its symbolic name. 51The first field is the UUID, the second field is the name, 52they are separated by tabs or spaces. 53A UUID is a 128 bit number written in hexadecimal and formatted like this: 5401234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef, 55i.e. 16 hexadecimal digits, with dash 56.Pq Sq - , 57after digit no. 8, 12, 16 and 20. 58A name is a text string enclosed in double quotes 59.Pq Sq \&" . 60.Sh FILES 61.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/defaults/uuids" -compact 62.It Pa /etc/defaults/uuids 63A list of UUIDs and their symbolic names provided by the OS vendor. 64.It Pa /etc/uuids 65A list of UUIDs and their symbolic names provided by the 66system administrator. 67.El 68.Sh EXAMPLES 69A UUID with name 70.Dq test UUID : 71.Bd -literal -offset indent 72# test uuids(5) file 73061ceb5d-5beb-11dd-924c-010e0cd0bad1 "test UUID" 74.Ed 75.Sh SEE ALSO 76.Xr uuid 3 77.Sh AUTHORS 78This manual page was written by 79.An Thomas Nikolajsen . 80