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
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