On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Regid Ichira <regi...@nt1.in> wrote: > > It seems newer hardware is much more problematic in this sense. I > think MS ovecomes this difficulty by somehow attaching a signature for > each device. I don't have the details, don't know the pros and cons.
On a UEFI box, partitions are assigned UUIDs similar to filesystem UUIDs. On my laptop, they are, as exposed by udev: # ll /dev/disk/by-partuuid/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2013-10-10 04:28 287521a3-432b-4992-ab68-327d92791ade -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2013-10-10 04:28 796cde65-0b7d-4ba4-8589-ee8e09ad47e2 -> ../../sdb2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2013-10-10 04:28 9500362d-9b00-4168-9b47-04c2b0204965 -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2013-10-10 04:28 f00e68a4-4645-44d6-b249-396e09b9844f -> ../../sda1 Are you sure that Microsoft's using these partition UUIDs? Or are you referring to the fact that an EFI system partition (in Windows and in Linux) is identified by a UUID ("C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B") at boot? This last UUID is a partition type and is recognized as "ef00" by gdisk. (The "8300" of a regular Linux partition also has an equivalent UUID.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxnxhwywlfs0bkso1ovw_fp826nopadqvklzw4nrev...@mail.gmail.com