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GCP Display Device Names on OS

August 18, 2021

In GCP console you can see the VM’s Device Names. In this case, it’s boot and persistent-disk-1.

Name		          Device name
server-boot               boot	
server-data               persistent-disk-1

To display the volume names on the OS, run this command.

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug  2 01:12 google-boot -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Aug  2 01:12 google-boot-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug 18 18:48 google-persistent-disk-1 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug  2 01:12 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_boot -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Aug  2 01:12 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_boot-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Aug 18 18:48 scsi-0Google_PersistentDisk_persistent-disk-1 -> ../../sdb

As you can see, boot and persistent-disk-1 are displayed along with its device names /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.

AWS Get Account ID

March 6, 2021

Here’s a quick way to find the AWS Account ID via AWS CLI.

aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text

Output is a 12 digit number (redacted)

xxxxxxxxxxxx

AWS Account ID is a 12 digit number unique to each AWS account. Occasionally, there are scripts and policies that need the ID of the account. The command above is one way of querying the account ID so they can be used for policies that need them.

WP_Query Reverse Sort

March 25, 2019

Here’s how to reverse sort WP_Query. Order by ID. Reverse sort by ASC intead of DESC.

  $args = array (
    'cat' => 8, 
    'year' => $year, 
    'orderby' => 'ID',
    'order' => 'ASC', 
    'posts_per_page' => -1, 
    'paged' => $paged, 
    's' => $searchterm 
  );
  $category_posts = new WP_Query($args);