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Re: [LUG] Disk replacement

 

On 25 March 2010 10:30, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michael Mortimore wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:49:30 -0000, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The UUIDs on the new disk will be different and will need to be changed.
>>> I just thought that this might be a common maintenance problem and
>>> someone might have just made a script for it or something....
>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>
>> I disagree. The UUID identifies the partition and it is stored with the
>> partition it identifies. dding the disk across will not cause problems in
>> that regard.
>
> I hope your right -I'd read that the UUID also contains data such as
> partition size and that (as I will be using different sized partitions) then
> I'd have to tidy up with gparted or similar and then the UUIDs would be
> changed
> Tom te tom te tom
>
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also if the distro uses UUIDs in grub it will also use them in fstab
(which can be worse)

Much prefer LABELS

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