On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:17:58 +0100, n952162 wrote:

> A couple of years back, I bought these drives to install RAID on them,
> but gave up on that.  Now, I've decided to do "manual" RAID, but I'm
> wondering if the fact that the two drives have the same UUID is causing
> whoever it is who sets up /dev/disk (I'm still trying to find that
> culprit) is croaking on two different devices with the same UUID.

udev creates /dev

> Where is the UUID determined?  I'd presumed that it was derived from
> some characteristics of the drive, determined by the device controller,
> but now I'm wondering if my initial RAID configuration set some
> drive-internal variable to be identical?
> 
> And, how does one /*reset*/ it?

tune2fs -U [UUID] /dev/sdX

UUID can be either a string in the standard format or the word random.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

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