disks renamed in 8.04
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Apr 28 14:56:37 UTC 2008
R Kimber wrote:
> 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 ;)
Did you report the bug? I'm pretty sure those two Us are supposed to be for
Unique and Universal.
--
derek
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