Swapping partitions WAS: Please help new hard drive install

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Preston Kutzner <shizzlecash at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Knapp wrote:
>>
>>> NP, all fixed now. I am using the old drive as a place to put backup data
>>> and that is also why I cloned it. I also had no idea about this UUID issue
>>> but it was fixed with one simple command, once the problem was known. The
>>> other reason for having 2 drives in that I am hoping that the system will
>>> run faster that way. Home on one and root on the other.
>>
>> Care to share with the list exactly what it was that fixed the problem, so
>> that people searching through the archives can find the answer?
>
> Sure, The best thing to do is be sure you have read the first tread because
> the fix is on that branch.
> I copied the partitions to the new drive but this copies the UUID numbers
> also and thus you have 2 partitions with the same numbers. So we reset the
> numbers and then things started acting as I would have thought they should
> from the start. I was just looking for the command that is in the other
> tread but it is on my other FF on the other partition, sorry. Anyway it
> resets the partitions UUID with a new random one.
> --
> Douglas E Knapp
>

For me, it is easier to assign unique labels with /sbin/e2label
/dev/sdaX and then use those labels in grub.conf than it is to mess
about with UUID values.



-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas