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When working with Linux, understanding and managing your storage devices effectively is crucial whether you're a system administrator, a developer, or a power user managing your personal system. The blkid command is a powerful tool designed for locating and identifying block devices such as hard drives, SSDs, and their partitions with critical information like UUIDs and filesystem types. This guide dives into the basics of blkid, its usage, and how to install it across various Linux distributions using different package managers. The blkid program is part of the util-linux package, which comes with numerous essential tools for system management. blkid provides you with the attributes of block devices installed on your system.