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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