id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 333 smartctl -i should give WWN for SATA demaine somebody "smartctl -i does not give WWN for SATA disks; still, this value seem to exists, since udev can create it: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green family Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1 Serial Number: WD-WCAU45613240 Firmware Version: 01.01A01 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Wed May 28 15:10:00 2014 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled # ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ | grep sda | grep -v part lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2014-05-28 15:04 ata-WDC_WD10EADS-00L5B1_WD-WCAU45613240 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2014-05-28 15:04 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EADS-00_WD-WCAU45613240 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2014-05-28 15:04 wwn-0x50014ee257ac47cd -> ../../sda Some details can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21977311/obtaining-wwn-of-sata-disks" enhancement closed minor all 6.2 worksforme