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On 2020-03-19, n952162 wrote: |
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> On 2020-03-19 09:36, n952162 wrote: |
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>> On 2020-03-19 09:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:17:58 +0100, n952162 wrote: |
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>>>> A couple of years back, I bought these drives to install RAID on them, |
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>>>> but gave up on that. Now, I've decided to do "manual" RAID, but I'm |
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>>>> wondering if the fact that the two drives have the same UUID is causing |
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>>>> whoever it is who sets up /dev/disk (I'm still trying to find that |
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>>>> culprit) is croaking on two different devices with the same UUID. |
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>>> udev creates /dev |
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>>>> Where is the UUID determined? I'd presumed that it was derived from |
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>>>> some characteristics of the drive, determined by the device controller, |
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>>>> but now I'm wondering if my initial RAID configuration set some |
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>>>> drive-internal variable to be identical? |
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>>>> And, how does one /*reset*/ it? |
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>>> tune2fs -U [UUID] /dev/sdX |
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>>> UUID can be either a string in the standard format or the word random. |
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>> Cool! I missed that about the "random" keyword. |
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> I changed the UUID of all the partitions of the second drive and now all |
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> my devices are linked to in /dev/disk/by-uuid. I still have |
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> no/dev/disk/by-label, though. Also, my swap file on a mounted drive |
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> wasn't mounted, which was my original problem ;-( |
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Any chance the "swap" service is what you need here? |
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/etc/conf.d/swap has examples for different setups - it seems you'd need |
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this service and the line rc_need="localmount" |
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Nuno Silva |
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