How to prevent changing UUIDs on install?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Florian Diesch wrote:
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 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
> 
> 
>    Florian

	Well the UUID is supposed to automagically take on the proper 
/dev/sda5 by itself if /dev/sda4 changes to /dev/sda5. I think 
this is stupid and have felt this way from the first time I 
started using Ubuntu. I was told it works fine and it really 
is magic!

	Well I have never encountered a situation that causes a 
partition to change locations. I add a line in my boot file 
that says for example, " # This is /dev/sda3". The UUID is a 
jumble of characters you can not get /dev/sda3 from.

	So the next step is to delete the UUID and replace it with 
the simple actual data.


73 Karl



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