GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 752121
UUID should be shown and be copyable.
Last modified: 2017-04-03 01:24:20 UTC
From: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1327910 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-blah-blah)" in it. But I can't copy that, so I have to retype it, which is silly on a computer.
But it's a combo box entry; you can't copy/paste from those anywhere. I think we can add a label for it beneath the existing Device and Partition Type labels, though. At least, I see no reason not to. FWIW, there is a Play button (like from a music player) with no tooltip that will run swapon for you, to the left of the gear button you pressed. But there's no way you could possibly know what it does without pressing it. That's not good.
Created attachment 348830 [details] [review] Show UUID of selected volume I attached a patch with an implementation of the new UUID entry and hope to resolve the issue.