disks renamed in 8.04

[R Kimber]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:20:46 +0100
John K Masters wrote:

> 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

Unlikely, maybe, but it happened. Some people do win the lottery ;)

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/