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Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk
Date 2024-11-25 16:30 +0100
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On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote:
> On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote:
> > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant
> > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a
> > mount point to "/etc/fstab".  The resulting paths may be a bit ugly,
> > but I am lazy.
> 
> I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more human-friendly than UUIDs.

Can you put PARTLABELs on an MBR disk?

(I'm not condoning such a disk. I'd take the opportunity to
switch to UEFI booting from a GPT SSD if that's possible.
Some explanation of the partitioning would be useful, rather
that slavishly copying them.)

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-11-25 08:30 +0100
  Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-25 16:10 +0100
    Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-11-25 16:30 +0100
      Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-11-25 16:40 +0100
        Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-11-26 01:50 +0100
          The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-11-26 09:00 +0100
            Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-11-26 09:10 +0100
              Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-11-26 09:40 +0100
              Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-11-26 09:50 +0100
            Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-11-26 09:30 +0100
              Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-11-26 10:00 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-11-26 10:10 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-11-26 12:20 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-26 12:40 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-11-26 12:40 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-26 10:30 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-11-26 11:00 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-11-26 15:00 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-26 16:00 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-11-26 16:40 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-26 18:50 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-11-27 18:00 +0100
                Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-11-26 16:00 +0100
            Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-11-26 09:30 +0100
              Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-11-26 10:50 +0100
            Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-26 09:50 +0100
            Re: The "uniqueness" of UUIDs pocket@homemail.com - 2024-11-26 13:20 +0100
      Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-25 18:30 +0100
        Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-11-25 21:00 +0100
    Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-25 18:00 +0100
      Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2024-11-25 18:40 +0100
        Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-25 19:00 +0100
          Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2024-11-25 20:10 +0100
        Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk eben@gmx.us - 2024-11-25 23:40 +0100
          Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-11-26 00:00 +0100
            Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-11-26 00:30 +0100
      Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-26 03:40 +0100

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