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[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Are UUIDs built into the hardware, or something your computer decides on based on the drive's serial number and shit?

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 33 points 1 year ago

Uuids are part of the gpt (table) on the disk.

[-] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

You're thinking of partuuid, regular uuids are part of the filesystem and made at mkfs time

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Ah. Makes sense.

[-] lea@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago

According to Arch Wiki they get generated and stored in the partition when it is formatted. So kinda like labels but automated and with (virtually) no collision risk.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I could have RTFM but you guys are more fun.

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you get the best Linux info when reading meme comments 😁.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I tried a gentoo stage 2 or 3 like 20 years ago. I'm still good.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

It's fun to have people around who read the friendly manual

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No. Since each partition gets its own UUID, it means it's generated by the OS on creation, no matter the number of partitions. On boot kernel will scan all UUIDs and then mount and map according to them, which is sightly less efficient method than naming block device directly, but far easier for humans and allows you to throw your drives to whichever port you like.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

So if we swap drives about, the OS will see them as the same drive and/or partition?

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