Find device name by disk id
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/dev/disk contains symlinks to actual device name:

  • by-id
  • by-diskseq
  • by-label
  • by-partuuid
  • by-path
  • by-uuid
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 May  7 06:32 ata-INTEL_SSDSC2BX200G4R_BTHC629105S3200TGN -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May  7 06:32 ata-INTEL_SSDSC2BX200G4R_BTHC629105S3200TGN-part1 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May  7 06:32 ata-INTEL_SSDSC2BX200G4R_BTHC629105S3200TGN-part2 -> ../../sdb2

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