Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition

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Subject: Re: Wish to ALMOST clone a logical partition
From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 13:56:53 -0500
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Reco wrote:

  Hi.

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

How can I have each of the "clones" have a unique UUID. All
partitions will be bootable and I suspect Grub could have problems.


This should do it for the ext* filesystem:

tune2fs -U <pre-generated-uuid-here> <fs-blockdev>

Thank you. Reading the man page indicates I can also use it toreset the label.

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