How to prevent changing UUIDs on install?

Markus Schönhaber ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de
Sun Dec 27 13:26:34 UTC 2009


27.12.2009 14:06, Dotan Cohen:

> Ubuntu has been using UUIDs in Grub instead of the traditional /dev/*
> setup for a few versions now. One thing that bothers me is that the
> UUIDs change when installing a new system, so other bootable
> partitions no longer can access the partition in which a new distro
> was installed. How can one intall Ubuntu yet have it keep the old UUID
> for the partition that it is being installed onto?

Don't format the partition. If you create a new file-system on the
partition, it's UUID will change.

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Regards
  mks




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