Corrected interpretation of RFC 4122 UUID strings for GPT. Thanks Andrei Borzenkov.

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.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.TH XORRISOFS 1 "Version 1.4.5, Aug 12, 2016"
.TH XORRISOFS 1 "Version 1.4.5, Aug 14, 2016"
.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
.\"
.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@ -1307,9 +1307,11 @@ Value "random" is default. Value "modification\-date" produces a low quality
GUID from the value set by option \-\-modification\-date=.
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A string of 32 hex digits, or a RFC 4122 compliant GUID string may be used to
set the disk GUID directly.
set the disk GUID directly. UEFI prescribes the first three components of
a RFC 4122 GUID string to be byte\-swapped in the binary representation:
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E.g. \-\-gpt_disk_guid 2303cd2a\-73c7\-424a\-a298\-25632da7f446
E.g. \-\-gpt_disk_guid 2303cd2a\-73c7\-424a\-a298\-25632da7f446
equals \-\-gpt_disk_guid 2acd0323c7734a42a29825632da7f446
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The partition GUIDs get generated by minimally varying the disk GUID.
.TP