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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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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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