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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#22797: Using UUID for vfat file system is impossible
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 22:50:19 +0300
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2016-02-25 21:32 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Hello, unlike other file system types, FAT volumes have short UUIDs,
>> for example: "58D7-4FA5", but such an UUID cannot be used in an
>> operating system declaration:
>>
>> (file-system
>>   (device (uuid "58D7-4FA5"))
>>   (title 'uuid)
>>   (type "vfat")
>>   ;; ...
>>   )
>>
>> because (uuid "58D7-4FA5") errors.
>
> That=E2=80=99s expected.  :-)  I=E2=80=99ve clarified this in 0767f6a:

Ah, actually I thought it's expected as this is not a "normal" UUID.
Thanks for the clarification.

--=20
Alex