On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 07:44 +0200, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > Dne 7 Červen 2008, 01:31, Robert Millan napsal(a): > > This patch adds the 64-bit serial number as UUID. But I'm not sure what > > is the "standard" method to stringify this number. Apparently, Windows > > only prints half of it in the dir command. > > That seems to me as some backward (pronounce: awkward) compatibility of > M$ Volume ID. Volume ID in M$ windows is (as you say) 'xxxx-xxxx' two > 16 bit hexadecimal numbers. And all programs I tested report the number > this way. So if we want user to enter these numbers manually we should > ignore the remaining four bits. Alternatively we can provide utility that > prints out whole serial number.
I suggest that you check udev sources: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/ It calculates UUID for many filesystems (see extras/lib/volime_id/lib). It would be nice to stay compatible with udev. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
