UUIDs on drives
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 14 16:42:06 UTC 2008
Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk wrote:
> 2008/8/14 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I resized an ext3 partition, and moved and resized a swap partition
> (without even changing its relative order to other partitions). The
> UUID of the ext3 partition did not change. I see no reason why the
> UUID of the swap would *have to* change. It is just what was for some
> reason easier for gparted developers to do.
No, a swap "filesystem" is a fixed length, and resizing it changes it.
Resizing some real filesystems would probably do the same.
--
derek
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