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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 07:24:51
Message-Id: 5c30a69a-2d3a-9468-f7a1-16acf9645391@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet] by n952162
1 On 2020-03-19 08:17, n952162 wrote:
2 >
3 > I just discovered that two of my disks have exactly the same UUIDs.
4 >
5 > A couple of years back, I bought these drives to install RAID on them,
6 > but gave up on that.  Now, I've decided to do "manual" RAID, but I'm
7 > wondering if the fact that the two drives have the same UUID is
8 > causing whoever it is who sets up /dev/disk (I'm still trying to find
9 > that culprit) is croaking on two different devices with the same UUID.
10 >
11 > Where is the UUID determined?  I'd presumed that it was derived from
12 > some characteristics of the drive, determined by the device
13 > controller, but now I'm wondering if my initial RAID configuration set
14 > some drive-internal variable to be identical?
15 >
16 > And, how does one /*reset*/ it?
17 >
18
19 Okay, I found this:
20
21 http://www.sudo-juice.com/how-to-change-the-uuid-of-a-linux-partition/
22
23 Any thoughts will be appreciated.