How to prevent changing UUIDs on install?

[Florian Diesch]

Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

>> The UUID is a property of the file system so it changes if you create
>> a new file system. For ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems you can change the
>> UUID using tune2fs -U
>>
>
> Yes, I am aware of this. What I need is a way to either format the
> partition and reuse the old UUID, or a way to completely remove the
> data from the partition without formatting it.

Why not just save the old UUIDs and restore them after installing?


   Florian
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