Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

[Filip <filip@fbvnet.be>]

On Sat, 24 May 2014 12:07:04 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> I'm running a series of experiments tweaking my Debian install.
> The procedure I wish to follow is:
>    0. Primary partition will have a normal install and will NOT 
> be modified
>       Grub2 installed to a second primary partition
>    1. install a minimal system to a logical partition
>    2. "clone" that partition to four additional logical partitions
>    3. Tweak the copies to have unique
>        a. hostname
>        b. partition label
>        c. UUID
> 
> Running dd from the "master" on the primary partition satisfies 
> "cloning" function.
> Labeling partition done easily with gparted etc.
> Hostname can be set in /etc/hostname .
> 
> How can I have each of the "clones" have a unique UUID. All 
> partitions will be bootable and I suspect Grub could have problems.
> 
> The test machine is physically isolated and will be only for this 
> test - i.e. no security concerns.
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> 

A bit too obvious, probably, but can the testing not be done in a vm ?

Anyway, I you want to the the UUID, you should be able to do that with
garted.