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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:19:28
Message-Id: 20130702181916.6a720116@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order by Grant Edwards
1 On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:57:26 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
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3 > IOW, it appears that the "blkid" program is either just making stuff
4 > up or its the filesystem UUID rather than the partition UUID. I
5 > suspect the latter, since I notice that blkid doesn't print a UUID for
6 > paritions that don't have filesystems.
7
8 UUIDs are for filesystems, PARTUUIDs ae for partitions - blkid prints
9 both, but only if both are present, which requires a GPT partition table.
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13 Neil Bothwick
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