On 2020-03-19, n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-19 09:36, n952162 wrote: >> On 2020-03-19 09:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> Cool! I missed that about the "random" keyword. >> >> > I changed the UUID of all the partitions of the second drive and now all > my devices are linked to in /dev/disk/by-uuid. I still have > no/dev/disk/by-label, though. Also, my swap file on a mounted drive > wasn't mounted, which was my original problem ;-(
Any chance the "swap" service is what you need here? /etc/conf.d/swap has examples for different setups - it seems you'd need this service and the line rc_need="localmount" -- Nuno Silva
