Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny
On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:00 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote:
>> > I am sure someone will correct me if I have got this wrong, so if
>> > noone does so I have probably remembered correctly.
>>
>> I don't remember a thread on debian-user about UUIDs changing with
>> changing hardware (I could be wrong though!) but there was a thread in
>> March on ubuntu-users where a guy was duplicating disks for a rollout
>> and he was convinced that the BIOS of the boxes into which he was
>> plugging in the duplicated HDs was changing the UUIDs of the disks'
>> partitions because he was unable to boot from those disks unless he
>> changed the fstab to use /dev/sdaX devices. I pointed out that the idea
>> that a BIOS could change a filesystem's superblock didn't make any
>> sense and that it could not be a UUID problem because he could boot
>> boxes with Intel mobos but not boxes with another manufacturer's mobos
>> (I assume that he could have replied that the other mobos were changing
>> the UUIDs and the Intels ones not...).
>
> Thanks, Tom - I may be getting confused with that.
No, Lisi, you are right. Here is the thread:
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question about fstab in squeeze and uuid
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/03/msg01026.html
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But using "labels" can lead to another problems. I'm afraid there is no
"one size fits all" here :-/
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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