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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