Home folder in terminal: strange "name"

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if i open a terminal i see:

john1@5b1bb8ab-8e66-4ff7-847f-30aae5957f6f:~$ blkid | grep -i 5b1bb8ab-8e66-4ff7-847f-30aae5957f6f

It is NOT a UUID, but?

Info

john1@5b1bb8ab-8e66-4ff7-847f-30aae5957f6f:~$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: 5b1bb8ab-8e66-4ff7-847f-30aae5957f6f.fritz.box
    Kernel: 6.1.67-200.fc39.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon
    v: 5.8.4 Distro: Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81RS v: Lenovo Yoga S740-14IIL
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: BYCN39WW date: 05/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 63.9 Wh (97.9%) condition: 65.3/62.0 Wh (105.3%)
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-1065G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 601 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 1194 2: 400 3: 400
    4: 1216 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] driver: nvidia v: 535.113.01
  Device-3: Chicony [] driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
    resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.0 renderer: Mesa Intel Iris
    Plus Graphics (ICL GT2)
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-icl
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.67-200.fc39.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: 04:33:c2:02:de:51
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
  IF: enp0s13f0u1u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: 4c:e1:73:42:1f:6b
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: 04:33:C2:02:DE:55 bt-v: 5.2
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 236.15 GiB (12.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA1T0TCK size: 953.87 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EARX-00N0YB0
    size: 931.51 GiB type: USB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 2.0 size: 14.54 GiB
    type: USB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 37.39 GiB used: 25.56 GiB (68.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 259.5 MiB used: 131.2 MiB (50.6%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 16.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 318 Uptime: 26m Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est.
  available: 15.17 GiB used: 3.46 GiB (22.8%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.31
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It’s the hostname, not a block device uuid.
Why your hostname is set thus is another question.

3

What gives you hostnamectl ? There I do see two ID’s too. But both without dash’s.

Was it after an update or a new installation or just out of the blue?

4

Strange: just rebooted and now it is “normal”

… and it is not part of hostnamectl !

I am new to fedora but i think i wondered before over that strange naming …

We’ll see what happens now, thanks for the answers!

5

For hostnamectl, see

ohn1@fedora:~$ hostnamectl
     Static hostname: (unset)                              
  Transient hostname: fedora.fritz.box
           Icon name: computer-laptop
             Chassis: laptop 💻
          Machine ID: 766486ab6d6745a2a303fd68df62b31a
             Boot ID: c315bb39fcfb4840b8f0be3e7e0b50e2
    Operating System: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)
         CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39
      OS Support End: Tue 2024-11-12
OS Support Remaining: 10month 3w 5d
              Kernel: Linux 6.1.67-200.fc39.x86_64
        Architecture: x86-64
     Hardware Vendor: Lenovo
      Hardware Model: Lenovo Yoga S740-14IIL
    Firmware Version: BYCN39WW
       Firmware Date: Fri 2021-05-28
        Firmware Age: 2y 6month 2w 5d                      
john1@fedora:~$ blkid | grep -i 5b1bb8ab-8e66-4ff7-847f-30aae5957f6f
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What I can see is in the “transient” (vorübergehender) Hostname in your hostnamectl.
You can change the hostname with:

*hostnamectl --help

Commands:
  status                 Show current hostname settings
  hostname [NAME]        Get/set system hostname

This should set a static host name and keep it.

Fedora is the default name when you do a Installation. To better distinguish my diverse installations I do a hostname change after installation including a pattern who unifies the machine (ex. dell-fe39).