[ubuntu-za] Changing UUID in 10.04?

[Arthur Rilke]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 16:37 +0200, Hannes Coetzee wrote:
> On 27/04/2011 09:54, vincent wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I recently did a complete system backup using mondo. All went well,
> > backing up to an external hard drive. However, on trying to restore to a
> > new hard drive, the system says the UUID is wrong&  doesn't recognize
> > it.
> > How do I change the UUID to the one on the external HDD or change the
> > UUID to a device name?
> > I read on a mint forum how to do this in 8.04, but the
> > boot/grub/menu.lst has, along with other files, changed in 10.04.
> > Not wanting to break anything, I'm appealing for help from people more
> > linux experienced than me.
> > There is a very good Grub2 HOWTO guide which I've Googled, but I have no
> > idea of the correct terminology to use in the /etc/grub.d/40_custom
> > file.
> > Any help would be very welcome.
> >
> > Vince
> >
> >
> You can view UUIDs by running ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ and Grub2 help is 
> located at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
> 

Alternatively, you can use: "sudo blkid".