UUID anomaly

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Fri Jul 9 05:39:41 UTC 2010


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 suppose you used "blkid" and not "sudo blkid". Calling blkid without 
sudo doesn't necessarily tell you the current state but the one from the 
cache file /etc/blkid.tab which was written when blkid was last used 
with sudo.


Nils




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