Comment 7 for bug 426027
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 426027] Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid doesn't exist in karmic kernels | #7 |
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On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:20 +0000, Matt Drake wrote:
> $ sudo blkid -p /dev/sda1
> /dev/sda1: ambivalent result (probably more filesystems on the device)
>
> I saw your comment on 433364 (which might be a duplicate of this bug
> since my partition is ext2) that explained what this output means. I did
> use jaunty's alternative installer for lpia to setup this drive though.
> Does my device actually have multiple metadata, or is it blkid returning
> a false positive? Also, how was vol_id able to work around this in
> Jaunty?
>
It probably does - there are a couple of bugs where blkid is a little
more paranoid, and those are fixed upstream as part of a rewrite so we
can't merge them :-(
If you're feeling brave you could grab the util-linux-ng upstream source
and build the blkid from that, and see what that gives you?
Scott
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