[CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, jd1008 wrote:

> Thanx for the update
> but what about non-gpt and non lvm partitions?
> What is used as inp
> nut to create a universally unique id?
>
> (Actually, for an id to be universally unique, one would almost
> nee knowledge of all existing id's.
> So, I do not have much credence in this universal uniqueness.

Sufficiently random gets you there, since you're not connecting billions of
filesystems to a single system.  If you really want to generate them by hand,
feel free, as mkfs.ext4 lets you specify the filesystem UUID.

I think you're finding a problem where one does not exist.

jh