[TriLUG] Ubuntu migration

Owen oberry at trilug.org
Thu May 15 15:43:21 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:33:07PM -0400, Alan Porter wrote:
> 
> > They're UUID's. How will that affect me? Wouldn't they need to be
> > regenerated for the new drive. Suggestions?
> >   
> 
> When you mkfs on the new partitions, they will get new UUID's. Erase
> that pesky file in /etc/blkid.tab and then run "blkid" and it'll tell
> you the UUID's for all of the partitions it can see.

Excellent! In the mean time I also found that you can run the following
on a particular partition:

  sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda1

I'll be working on this tomorrow ... need to bring my laptop in to the
office so I have something to do actual work on.

Thanks,
Owen



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