On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 14:38 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 11:29 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On f7 the blkid command returns UUID's that are not at all consistant > > > with those mentioned in the recent postings of f9 UUID's. > > > Why is that? > > > > I'm not sure i understand what you are trying to ask here. > > > > Are you saying that you ran blkid on the same physical devices on f9 > > then moved them to a machine running f7 and run blkid again and got > > different UUID information? > > > > -jef > > No, I made a mistake. When you run blkid on a WinXP partition you get > very different looking UUID then on a Linux partition. Once I found that > out all was cleare except for the question: > How would find out what the UUID means? It looks like random garbage. It *is* random garbage, that's the point. The only property you can rely on is that it's almost certainly different from all the others out there, so the chances of a collision are tiny. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
