Will man Platten über die Labels mounten so gibt /dev/disk einen guten Überblick. Ein Beispiel:
gmueller@gm:~$ tree /dev/disk
/dev/disk
|-- by-id
| |-- ata-Hitachi_HTS541616J9SA00_SB2481SJEPV72E -> ../../sda
| |-- ata-Hitachi_HTS541616J9SA00_SB2481SJEPV72E-part1 -> ../../sda1
| |-- ata-Hitachi_HTS541616J9SA00_SB2481SJEPV72E-part3 -> ../../sda3
| |-- ata-Hitachi_HTS541616J9SA00_SB2481SJEPV72E-part4 -> ../../sda4
| |-- ata-Hitachi_HTS541616J9SA00_SB2481SJEPV72E-part5 -> ../../sda5
| |-- scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5416_SB2481SJEPV72E -> ../../sda
| |-- scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5416_SB2481SJEPV72E-part1 -> ../../sda1
| |-- scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5416_SB2481SJEPV72E-part3 -> ../../sda3
| |-- scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5416_SB2481SJEPV72E-part4 -> ../../sda4
| `-- scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS5416_SB2481SJEPV72E-part5 -> ../../sda5
|-- by-label
| `-- HP_RECOVERY -> ../../sda3
|-- by-path
| |-- pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sr0
| |-- pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sda
| |-- pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1
| |-- pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part3 -> ../../sda3
| |-- pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part4 -> ../../sda4
| `-- pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-0:0:0:0-part5 -> ../../sda5
`-- by-uuid
|-- d321dda3-bc1f-4d24-a56f-a86d66002b1c -> ../../sda5
|-- e916f1d1-44fe-4def-8bf6-5b9eacbe13a6 -> ../../sda1
`-- FAFC5F30FC5EE703 -> ../../sda3