[Gptfdisk-general] Upper case UUIDs

[Johan M. <je...@to...>]

Thanks for the great programs!

One minor point on UUIDs: all the programs (gdisk, sgdisk and cgdisk) 
print UUIDs in upper case. This is not practical, at least not on Linux, 
since you can't cut and paste the UUID anywhere. Most other programs 
represent UUIDs in lower case, and are case sensitive on input. 
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ presents the UUIDs in lower case, mount(8), blkid(8), 
swapon(8) and swapoff(8) all use lower case and are case sensitive on input.

Wikipedia says: "In its canonical form, a UUID is represented by 32 
lowercase hexadecimal digits". Thus lower case would seem to be a 
natural choice instead of upper case.

Would something break if the output format was changed to lower case?

Johan Myréen
joh...@ik...