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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forensic File System GUID Linux/Windows
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:13:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48614755.5080001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2778.69.2.248.210.1214248946.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-24 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-23 19:22 Forensic File System GUID Linux/Windows jmerkey
2008-06-23 19:50 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-06-23 20:07   ` jmerkey
2008-06-24 19:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1861.69.2.248.210.1214405540.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com>
2008-06-25 14:53     ` jmerkey
2008-06-30 22:39   ` [ANNOUNCE] Forensic File System GUID Linux/Windows and patches jmerkey

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