getting uid from device file

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:33 +0200, Roman Glebov wrote:
> i have for example /dev/sda how can i get to it corresponding hal-UDI 
> automatically.
> I know manual way with lshal|grep -100 /dev/sda  and then searching for 
> corr UDI

How about this?

[hughsie at localhost ~]$ hal-find-by-property --key "block.device"
--string "/dev/hda1"

/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_d19fa543_ac23_4c99_add2_6105b71bbb2c

Richard.