From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F71D138CD3 for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 08:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70D55E0888; Fri, 29 May 2015 08:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F24CE0877 for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 08:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0337656ED3 for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 09:25:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 09:25:42 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe. Message-ID: <20150529092542.1fbddf69@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <12811746.auXgAlIpla@wstn> References: <2988031.1MpZN5Nf01@wstn> <1792747.JZnWCiL56h@wstn> <12811746.auXgAlIpla@wstn> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-102-ga52401 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/LJcu3_i9yhjFL35W51v8zsn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: cb58b4ad-229e-4cdd-b31b-8207759b5a27 X-Archives-Hash: 8a412e6b84183b5467db7da3c040b27d --Sig_/LJcu3_i9yhjFL35W51v8zsn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 29 May 2015 01:10:52 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just keep in mind that the UUID that goes into mdadm.conf might not be > > the same UUID returned by blkid. I'm honestly not certain either way. > > You can get the mdadm ID from mdadm --detail --scan. >=20 > Good grief! When is a UUID not a UUID? Or, how can one device have more > than one UUID? There's the UUID for the partition and the UUID for the filesystem living on it.=20 > > > Two odd things: > > > 1. /dev/md7 is the physical volume in which logical volumes are > > > defined, so I'm surprised to see TYPE=3D"LVM2_member". > >=20 > > I'm pretty sure this is fine. It recognizes it as an LVM pv, so that > > makes it an LVM2 member. >=20 > If you say so. It still smells a bit to me. It makes sense to me. TYPE refers to the filesystem type, look at the blkid output for your boot or swap partition. blkid is simply recognising that this partition is a member of an LVM group. --=20 Neil Bothwick I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week. Time to die. --Sig_/LJcu3_i9yhjFL35W51v8zsn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlVoIoYACgkQum4al0N1GQMrrQCeM8tZMK9wtXYphXxD+6jcJhsC pIkAoNeptPzWgP1ZEjcKIJZ2Vn458uNH =QEsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/LJcu3_i9yhjFL35W51v8zsn--