>>> Me too, so I usually label the permanent stuff at least. UUID's can and >>> will change for no detectable reason. >> For those reading along or finding this in search results: no, filesystem >> UUIDs don't change for no detectable reason. Don't implement anything based >> on this theory. > > What he meant is that filesystem UUIDs are (re)created automatically
Your "analysis" appears to be more like what you want to mean than what Gene was meaning. > based on a heuristic of what it means for a filesystem to be "the same". > This heuristic can be wrong in both directions: sometimes you delete and >create a new filesystem which is supposed to "be" the same filesystem as This seems like an eminently detectable reason for a UUID change to me. -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin Artaud