disks renamed in 8.04

[John K Masters]

On 12:52 Sun 27 Apr     , R Kimber wrote:
> Thanks.  That's helpful.  I have, though, been somewhat wary of
> UUIDs ever since an earlier re-install allocated identical UUIDs to two
> different drives.
> 
Unlikely, depending on how it was generated, but if generated according
to standards it is either guaranteed to be different from ALL other
UUIDs generated before 3603AD or to be extremely likely to be different.
 
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/uuid.html
 
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Regards, John