UUID anomaly

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 8 22:31:17 UTC 2010


On 07/08/2010 02:39 PM, R Kimber wrote:
> Following some partition resizing that appeared to go well, I've discovered
> that gparted reports the id of sdc7 as:
>     ae8fcccb-59d9-4b7e-aa02-c301eee02c8f
> whereas blkid reports it as:
>     ed0b56e7-7a08-4e94-8c52-3de8d5e5c6fb
> 
> Which is correct?  Are there other ways of finding the UUID that I can use
> to check?

I'd go with blkid. Sounds as if gparted has a bug? What does /etc/fstab
show?

FWIW: Mine do match.

> 
> It's unsettling that apps can't report something as fundamental as the UUID
> consistently.
> 
> - Richard.






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