Option to use /dev values instead of UUID values

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
> Here's a slightly tangential but related question about uuids
>
> If I want to create a copy of my boot partition (/dev/sda6), my old way
> was to restore a partimage backup to an adjacent partition (/dev/sda5)
> and replace in /etc/fstab /dev/sda6 with /dev/sda5.  can i just do the
> same by looking up uuids with blkid and replacing the corresponding sda6
> uuid with the sda5 uuid from blkid?

Depends on how you made the backup, but if it correctly assigns a new
ID, yes, I believe so.

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