[PATCH] ntfs UUIDs (Re: UUID-based boot (Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2))

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:22:23AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > Then for the Vista use case, I suppose the remaining questions are if NTFS
> > supports UUIDs (or otherwise we have to ressort to labels?), and if we can
> > extract filesystem metadata from Windows (if possible without requiring that
> > a Cygwin installation is present).
> 
> ntfs has a 64-bit serial number, it's not quite the same as uuid, but
> it can be used to identify the partition.

This patch adds the 64-bit serial number as UUID.  But I'm not sure what is the
"standard" method to stringify this number.  Apparently, Windows only prints
half of it in the dir command.

-- 
Robert Millan

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