On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 15:17 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I found that the mystery UUID > actually refers to the partition which is the new / . > So installing Fedora-12 on this partition > changes its UUID, which I find slightly surprising - > I thought the whole point of these UUIDs > was that they never changed. That depends on the circumstances... Pull out drive UUID-whatever, plug it in somewhere else, or the same place at a later date, and that same UUID is applied to that drive. Plug in some other drive, and it'll have a different UUID, and shouldn't get confused with some other drive, if you unplugged one and plugged another into the same port. Reformat a drive, and it's probably going to get a new one, unless the formatting routine noted the old one, beforehand, and restored it. You probably will be reformatting during an install. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
