what kind of /etc/fstab is this?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon May 26 21:54:17 UTC 2008


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 at sbcglobal.net> 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




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