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Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

From eben@gmx.us
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk
Date 2024-11-25 23:40 +0100
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On 11/25/24 12:36, Default User wrote:
>
> Thomas, would you mind elaborating on, or give a link to an
> explanation of:
>
> "Of course, this UUID uniqueness thing starts looking ever more
> flimsy once you start bit-copying file systems . . . "
>
> I'm not sure I understand what bit-copying of file systems is,
> and why it would be flimsy.

I'm not Thomas, but here you go.  If you do

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1

to copy sda1 to sdb1, they get the same UUID.  Which makes one question the
Uniqueness part.  I ran into that, and my solution was to use the actual
device names everywhere, something of the sdXY format.  Which worked great
until I installed Debian, and something in the boot process makes the names
switch randomly.

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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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