Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

From	Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk
Date	2024-11-26 03:40 +0100
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On 25/11/2024 23:59, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:07:35AM -0500, eben@gmx.us wrote:
>> I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more human-friendly than UUIDs.
> 
> The idea of UUIDs is that they are "unique",
> so you can run two OS installs automatically without the disk IDs
> colliding. We leave the collision probability of UUIDs as an exercise
> for the reader.

I recall a couple of reports on this mailing list when data recovery was 
necessary due to usage of UUIDs. Snapshots have the same filesystem 
UUID, so some old version may be accidentally mounted during boot. Do 
not use them in the case of LVM. Certainly FS labels are affected by the 
same issue.

Do not take it wrong, in other cases I still recommend UUID as first 
option to consider.

Specifically to partition UUIDs, sgdisk has an option for cloned drives:
-G, --randomize-guids

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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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