Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 17 18:53, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I see.  Admittedly, I don't know how Linux handles this either.
>> A quick test on Debian 12 with by-label suggests that the last duplicate
>> wins. Also not very sophisticated :-)
> Given this is all controlled by rather simple udev rules, see
> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules, that's not
> really surprising.
>
>> IIRC in the past I've seen in another of these directories (by-id?) that
>> '#N' was appended if duplicates occur.
> I don't see anything like that in 60-persistent-storage.rules, though.
> It has been removed at one point, it seems.

A quick followup to mark duplicates and (more important) avoid leading 
spaces in NTFS serial number.