On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:05:18PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Gerhard Gedigk wrote: > > >As far as I understand it you do not need initrd to use UUIDs. > >I need initrd to launch udev so early so I can use the symlinks > >in /etc/fstab . With init and 10udev it is too late. > > There are potentially two UUIDs for a partition. The filesystem (ext4, etc_ > and with GPT, the partition GUID, The kernel understands > root=PARTUUID=abcdef...123 but not the filesystem UUID. For that you need > an initrd. > > -- Bruce > Well, obviously I did not know that about partition GUIDs. What tool(s) do you use to read them ?
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