The "uniqueness" of UUIDs
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, George at Clug wrote:
"$ lsblk -f" output is very nice ! Thanks.
I tried this and noticed UUID duplication in the output. I attach a small text
file which shows what I saw. UUID sdg6 = UUID sdh6 !
NAME FSTYPE UUID
...
├─sdg6 linux_raid_membe3 f5e37a29-357a-e3f2-c731-e29eddce5e
│ └─md3 ext4 1.039c24711-ab43-497c-bf3e-12b4032575a.4G
...
├─sdh6 linux_raid_membe3 f5e37a29-357a-e3f2-c731-e29eddce5e91
│ └─md3 ext4 39c39c24711-ab43-497c-bf3e-12b403257.4G
If I wanted to retire /dev/sdg6 from the Raid array, I would not be able to use
the UUID, only the unique SDxn.
Aren't UUIDs supposed to be unique? Roger
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
...
â??â??sdg6 linux_raid_member 1.0 10.218.0.100:3 f5e37a29-357a-e3f2-c731-e29eddce5e91
â?? â??â??md3 ext4 1.0 39c24711-ab43-497c-bf3e-12b4032575ac 758.4G 7% /mnt/home
...
â??â??sdh6 linux_raid_member 1.0 10.218.0.100:3 f5e37a29-357a-e3f2-c731-e29eddce5e91
â?? â??â??md3 ext4 1.0 39c24711-ab43-497c-bf3e-12b4032575ac 758.4G 7% /mnt/home
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