UUIDs on drives (was Hibernate on batery low)

[Brian Astill]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 09:47:49 Rashkae wrote:
> I've never seen any problems
> reported with the use of UUID that doesn't amount to old school
> gurus not wanting to learn something different.

That's incorrect - unless you haven't been looking!
If there is a key to unravel the info implicit in /dev/hdb3 
(Primary partition on the Slave drive) from its UUID, would 
someone please publish it.

Also, would someone please tell me how to construct a UUID for a 
partition I have just created - short of rebooting and seeing if 
I can identify it from fstab, assuming the partition is mounted.

Why is a simple 8-digit code sufficient to uniquely identify a 
vfat partition, eg "UUID=3FF4-3BE7  /media/hda1     vfat"
whereas a Linux partition needs something HUGE
UUID=d757b47c-5808-4271-a247-9df9072826de /media/hdb1     ext2

I could go on, but please notice that change does not always 
involve progress.

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Regards,
Brian