UUIDs on drives

Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Sun Aug 17 11:50:18 UTC 2008


2008/8/17 Neil <hok.krat at gmail.com>:

> I didn't test it. I read it in this thread:
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
> <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote:
>>
>> Except when resizing the swap with gparted, where /dev/sda5 does not
>> change but UUID does.

This applies only to swap. UUID of ext2/ext3 does not change when
resizing with gparted. I believe the better behavior is to keep UUID
unchanged on resizing & moving.

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Marcin Kowalczyk
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