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authorJoey Hess2018-01-07 17:11:19 -0400
committerJoey Hess2018-01-07 17:11:19 -0400
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@@ -25,9 +25,28 @@ Open design questions:
Question: When using microsd card adapter, does the serial number pass
through so different microsds can be distinguished?
+
> Checked this, and two microsd card adapters from different
> manufacturers with different microsd cards have the same by-id.
> Those must have no serial number..
+ >
+ > Also, a USB SD/microSD reader had the same by-id for multiple cards.
+
+ > > For disks with a MBR, there's a disk identifier / volume id,
+ > > which should uniquely identify that disk,
+ > > as long as propellor does not overwrite the MBR when imaging it.
+ > > And, GPT has a similar disk GUID.
+ > >
+ > > /dev/disk/by-partuuid exposes this. Some documentation suggests
+ > > it's GPT-only, but my laptop is not GPT and its MBR disk identifier
+ > > shows up there. Oddly, that points to /dev/sda1 and not /dev/sda.
+ > >
+ > > blkid can also display it, as the PTUUID, which works for
+ > > both GPT and MBT.
+ > > --[[Joey]]
+
+ root@darkstar:/home/joey>blkid /dev/sda
+ /dev/sda: PTUUID="d0497bc6" PTTYPE="dos"
* Should an already imaged drive be updated incrementally or re-imaged?
Seems both cases would be useful, the former especially for incrementally