Colin Watson wrote:
UUIDs are properties of filesystems, not disks or partitions, and the
MBR of a hard disk does not have a UUID.
Since MSDOS partitions are limited to 2TByte partitions anyway, it
might be wise to look at alternatives, e.g. GPT. GPT _does_ provide
a UUID in the disk header
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 05:24:06PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
UUIDs are properties of filesystems, not disks or partitions, and the
MBR of a hard disk does not have a UUID.
Since MSDOS partitions are limited to 2TByte partitions anyway, it
might be wise to look at
Colin Watson wrote:
UUIDs are properties of filesystems, not disks or partitions, and the
MBR of a hard disk does not have a UUID. For disks, the choices for
stable identifiers are based on either the hardware serial number or the
bus path taken to reach the disk.
What about block device
tags 554790 - patch
thanks
For the record, Colin said he will commit his patch soon to Bazaar repo
after he's finished testing it (he's now in pkg-grub team).
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thanks
Preface (possibly unnecessary since I'm following up to an existing bug,
but let's summarise anyway):
Currently, grub-pc stores traditional Linux device names in
grub-pc/install_devices.
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