Partitioning questions

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Eric Lee Elliott wrote:
> Goh Lip advised me to avoid Partition Manager.  What I have done
> for some years, is use PM to kill all partitions, make several
> partitions of 20 GB for Linux installs, a swap partition & one
> large partition for my files.  After partitions are written &
> formatted, 2 or 3 distros are installed.  Are GUI partitioning
> applications not trustworthy for use before operating systems are
> installed?
> 
> The documentation for cp (info coreutils 'cp invocation') has no
> mention of UUID.  If cp -r is used to copy all files in a
> partition to another partition, will UUID be duplicated?

cp only operates on the files themselves, not on the filesystem 
level. Since UUIDs are filesystem properties, cp will never touch 
them.

  --Reinhold