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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:53:24 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: Forensic File System GUID Linux/Windows
From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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>> jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
>>> The following GUID is being used in the Wolf Mountain Group, Inc.
>>> Forensic
>>> File System (FFS) for GPT intel EFI partitions.  Since there is no
>>> central
>>> registry for EFI GUID's it is posted here for referece for folks who
>>> may
>>> run accross it on Windows Vista, 2003, and 2008 systems running FFS on
>>> Windows that may be using dual boot with Linux or vmware:
>>>
>>> #define PARTITION_FFS_GUID \
>>>     EFI_GUID( 0xBEEFCAFE, 0xFEED, 0x0000, \
>>>               0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01)
>>>
>>
>> You would have vastly less probability of accidental collision if you
>> generated a proper random GUID, for example:
>>
>> : tazenda 118 ; uuidgen -r
>> 33ae8a9c-441e-4d97-93a3-8561388ce905
>>
>> 	-hpa
>
Thanks.  Good advice.  What we really need is someone to maintain a
central registry for UUID generation for EFI and GPT based ID's.   Since
drives are getting bigger and bigger, GPT is probably going to be the
standard 5 years from now, so sooner is better than later.  I will
regenerate a new UUID using these tools and update the software.

Thanks for the help.

:-)

Jeff
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