UUIDs on drives

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 14 15:28:45 UTC 2008


Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk wrote:

> 2008/8/14 Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>:
> 
>> But that's the point.  The drive and partition numbers can and do
>> change - UUID doesn't.
> 
> Except when resizing the swap with gparted, where /dev/sda5 does not
> change but UUID does.

No, you're wrong there.  The swap has changed.  You have created a new,
different, swap partition, so the UUID must change.
-- 
derek





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