On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote:

Thanx for the update
but what about non-gpt and non lvm partitions?
What is used as inp
nut to create a universally unique id?

(Actually, for an id to be universally unique, one would almost
nee knowledge of all existing id's.
So, I do not have much credence in this universal uniqueness.

Sufficiently random gets you there, since you're not connecting billions of
filesystems to a single system.  If you really want to generate them by hand,
feel free, as mkfs.ext4 lets you specify the filesystem UUID.

I think you're finding a problem where one does not exist.

jh
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