Re: Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 February 2012 09:43, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> For filesystem UUIDs, I wouldn't use "GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"".
>>> I'd change the new flash card's UUIDs with tune2fs and mkswap to match
>>> the copied/cloned "/etc/fstab".
>>
>>
>> I didn't realise you could do this! Much neater.
>
> I just realised that since I do the equivalent of dd if=sbc-image.img
> of=/dev/sda, the UUID info gets copied too anyway. Does that sound right?
Yes, "dd..." preserves filesystem UUIDs.
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