Does anyone know of a tool to report the unique partition GUID for a partition?
The diskutil info command is apparently not cutting it. For non-Mac OS filesystems it does not report a GUID at all, and for hfs+ partitions the "Volume UUID" does not match the unique partition GUID in the GPT for that partition. Example 1: diskutil info disk0s2 [a jhfs+ partition] returns a bunch of info including a "Volume UUID". But this UUID does not match the GUID in the GPT at offset 16 for that partition, whereas the GUID at offset 0 does correctly report the GUID as hfs+ partition type. (I am aware the first three blocks of both GUIDs are byte-swapped when stored in the GPT itself, so that's not the problem.) Example 2: diskutil info disk0sX [where X is the partition for any non-Mac OS filesystem] returns somewhat less info including no "Volume UUID" at all. But even if it did, apparently it wouldn't match the unique partition GUID in the GPT. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
