Bug#1116325: Some more info about the missing UUID, etc

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 06:10:15PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Not to speak for OP but OP had previously discussed this at:
> 
>     https://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2025-September/083705.html
> 
> and we didn't find a solution.
> 
> In that thread it was established that OP was able to find the UUID on
> the block device of their /home using tune2fs:
> 
> # tune2fs -l /dev/sda6 | grep UU
> Filesystem UUID:          23ba8ae2-5f38-43e7-959a-8495f6889302
> 
> Yet "lsblk" and "udevadm info" knew very little about it:

Unfortunately there is little info on _how_ the filesystem was 
created, and more importantly using which tools and what was on it 
*before*.

You might find these util-linux issues interesting:
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/3642
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/3613

Good luck,
Chris