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SubjectRe: Of removable devices
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"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@tanstaafl.de> said:
[...]
> pops a requester "Please insert floppy "foobla" (as far as I know,
> there is a unique identifier for both ext2 and DOS

... which is dutifully duplicated when you copy a floppy, and which also
depends on the machine doing the creating of the filesuystem (there is no
central authority that hands out identifiers like they do for Ethernet
addresses)...

> ) in Drive
> "/dev/fd0".
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