Does deleting a partition below Ubuntu mess up grub?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Oct 13 20:39:31 UTC 2014


On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:27:53PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> UUIDs only helps when *Linux* mounts file systems -- it does nothing
> for grub.

This is quite untrue.  GRUB 2 uses UUIDs to find the file systems it
needs; indeed this was one of the primary reasons we switched from GRUB
Legacy to GRUB 2 some years ago.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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