UUIDs on drives

[Kennneth P. Turvey]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:14:59 +0200, Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk wrote:

> Perhaps gparted could be improved by being able to resize the swap
> without changing its UUID. It copied swap contents to the new location,
> very slowly (slower than ext3 contents apparently) — this can definitely
> be improved if it later does simply mkswap. I don't know if it does
> mkswap after copying, I just guess from the fact that the UUID changes.
> Why does it copy swap contents at all? Perhaps it should just mkswap and
> then write back the old UUID.

I just (finished an hour ago) resized my swap partition and moved it, 
along with a number of other partitions.  I just ran top and my swap 
(identified by UUID) is mounted.  


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