dealing with UUID duplication

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jun 6 02:36:46 UTC 2008


Felix Miata (mrmazda at ij.net) said: 
> When you do a sector level clone of a partition to another partition on the
> same disk, you wind up with two partitions assigned the same UUID. I have a
> disk with 16 partitions in /dev/disk/by-uuid and 23 in /dev/disk/by-path.
> This is not a problem in fstab, where I use LABELs instead of UUID. However,
> grub is refusing to cooperate, with error 12, which I suspect must be a fault
> of multiple UUIDs. Is there some utility that can change one or a group of
> UUIDs on a disk?

tune2fs -U

Bill




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