How to list an UUID?

[Derek Broughton]

Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
>> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Specifically for swap partitions, uuid is _not_ very stable (at least
>>>> when
>>>> hibernate gets involved).  I've had to use mkswap a number of times
>>>> because of problems with hibernation.
>>> 
>>> Ah, but that isn't a property of hibernation (as such) but, rather, of
>>> your running mkswap on the partition you used for hibernation.
>>
>> No, that's a property of hibernation (at least the version I was
>> using), in that it changed the partition signature such that if the
>> resume failed, you could no longer use the partition for swap - so you
>> had to use mkswap.
> 
> Oh.  Well.  That surely sucks.  You should file a bug on it.  That is
> really, truly awful behaviour and is going to cause a lot of pain for a
> lot of people.
> 
> Even with the hibernation stuff still in a permanent alpha state that
> really isn't a good thing and Ubuntu should fix it one way or another.

It hasn't happened in a very long time, so I suspect it _is_ fixed.
-- 
derek