On 09/04/2008, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/04/2008, at 5:05 AM, Herb Petschauer wrote: > > > > And note that only a GUID partition table scheme will yield partitions > > with a UUID. The old style Apple Partition Map will not (so any > > legacy or even current PPC machines). > > > > No this is incorrect. Volumes have a UUID of their own and is different > from the one used in the GUID partition map. Disk Utility displays the > volume UUID. In HFS the UUID is not actually a proper UUID but is generated > from 8 bytes in the Finder Info of the volume header. Have a look at the > Darwin source code if you want to know how it's computed. I'm not sure how > they're computed for other file-system types.
That's a good point. When think volume UUID I always think of what I can easily get from the ioregistry :-) Thanks for the correction! Cheers, -H. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
