Etienne Goyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ian Shields wrote: > > FWIW, the blkid command helps a lot with figuring out UUIDs. > > And so does vol_id.
Forgot to ask, "are both of these commands ubiquitous or are either distro specific?" Regards, --matt > > > > I recently > > heard of a case where two drives that had been part of a RAID array were > > set up as individual drives and havoc was caused because they both had > > the same UUID. Hardly Universally Unique I think. > > That sounds like an operator error, if you ask me. The filesystem on > both software RAID volumes *was* in fact the same. If you just broke > the array and start using both disks independently without recreating > the filesystem, of course they will have the same UUID. Don't shoot me > if I am missing something, just saying. > > -- > Etienne Goyer 0x3106BCC2 > > "For Bruce Schneier, SHA-1 is merely a compression algorithm." > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/164 > > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- g. matthew rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> starnix care, toronto, ontario, ca phone: 647.722.5301 x242 gpg id: EF9AAD20 http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
