How to prevent changing UUIDs on install?

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Tue Dec 29 14:56:55 UTC 2009


Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

>> I still don't understand why you don't want to change the UUID back to
>> the old value as that would allow the other systems and grub to access
>> the partition like before the new install without the need to touch them.
>>
>
> Because I do not know where all the places are with the new value,
> which I would have to change manually. 

If you change the UUID of the newly created file system to the old value
you don't need to change anything else - just call tune2fs to set the
old UUID and you are done.


   Florian
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