Colin Watson wrote: > UUIDs are properties of filesystems, not disks or partitions, and the > MBR of a hard disk does not have a UUID.
Since MSDOS partitions are limited to 2TByte partitions anyway, it
might be wise to look at alternatives, e.g. GPT. GPT _does_ provide
a UUID in the disk header _and_ in the header of each partition.
Wikipedia provides an excellent overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
> For disks, the choices for
> stable identifiers are based on either the hardware serial number or the
> bus path taken to reach the disk.
What about block device emulations, e.g. software RAIDs, LVM, etc?
Just my $0.02. Regards
Harri
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
