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Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny



On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> question about fstab in squeeze and uuid
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/03/msg01026.html

I've just skimmed through that thread's posts. There were no hardware
changes there and no moving of a disk from one box to another.

Interestingly, no one asked the OP how he created space for Squeeze in his disk!


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