disks renamed in 8.04

Caleb Marcus caleb.marcus at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 16:35:01 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 13:20 +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
>  
Well, it could just have been a bug... that's the simpler, more likely
explanation.
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