On 2013-07-02, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:57:26 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> IOW, it appears that the "blkid" program is either just making stuff >> up or its the filesystem UUID rather than the partition UUID. I >> suspect the latter, since I notice that blkid doesn't print a UUID for >> paritions that don't have filesystems. > > UUIDs are for filesystems, PARTUUIDs ae for partitions - blkid prints > both, but only if both are present, which requires a GPT partition table.
I found some references to blkid at one time generating PARTUUID values for MBR partitions, but that feature got removed. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! How's the wife? at Is she at home enjoying gmail.com capitalism?