Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)
>>> Me too, so I usually label the permanent stuff at least. UUID's can and
>>> will change for no detectable reason.
>> For those reading along or finding this in search results: no, filesystem
>> UUIDs don't change for no detectable reason. Don't implement anything based
>> on this theory.
>
> What he meant is that filesystem UUIDs are (re)created automatically
Your "analysis" appears to be more like what you want to mean than
what Gene was meaning.
> based on a heuristic of what it means for a filesystem to be "the same".
> This heuristic can be wrong in both directions: sometimes you delete and
>create a new filesystem which is supposed to "be" the same filesystem as
This seems like an eminently detectable reason for a UUID change to me.
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