Michael Stone composed on 2018-01-19 08:57 (UTC-0500):
...
> It's also possible to use filesystem labels, but in practice it turned out
> to be not uncommon for two different systems to have something like "root",
> which caused a lot of trouble when you put a drive from one system into
> anoth
[not responding to the OP, I think he's already gotten an answer. this
is for people reading the archive.]
The filesystem UUID is written into the filesystem when it is created.
It's possible (though not necessarily easy) to change using tune2fs and
other specialized filesystem tools. It does
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 06:42:41PM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
> > refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
>
> what is the reason to avoid UUIDs? (if not very private)
The specifi
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote:
> Dave Sherohman writes:
>
> >What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
> >refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
>
> I don't know about "recommended" but could you put your own
On Thursday 18 January 2018 20:25:51 David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 14:46:26 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > > > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system
>> What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
>> refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
> One method for you use case it to put /boot or at least /boot/grub
> in a plain partition on the same disk as GRUB's core image.
Indeed, that's what I have
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 08:50:11PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
I've had it happen, too. Feels like recently, but was probably a
couple years ago, if not more like 3. I could never figure out how it
happened.
vfat filesystem?
Mike Stone
On 1/18/18, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2018 16:04:26 Don Armstrong wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> > > Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
>> > > > UUID's have turned out to be quit
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 14:46:26 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
> > Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system upgrades.
> >
> > Not on mine.
> >
> > > Give me a familiar di
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2018 16:04:26 Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Which UUID changed? The filesystem UUID shouldn't change unless you
> > reformat the partition, and the partition UUID shouldn't change
> > unless you repartition it (or you specifically change
On Thursday 18 January 2018 16:04:26 Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > > > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system
> > > > upgrades.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system upgrades.
> >
> > Not on mine.
>
> I have had the UUID change on this system, on my
On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system upgrades.
>
> Not on mine.
>
> > Give me a familiar disklabel any day.
>
> Don't you mean a filesystem or partition label ?
> "Dis
Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system upgrades.
Not on mine.
Give me a familiar disklabel any day.
Don't you mean a filesystem or partition label ?
"Disklabel" is a synonym for "partition table".
Le 18/01/2018 à 10:31, Dave Sherohman a écrit :
What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
One method for you use case it to put /boot or at least /boot/grub in a
plain partition on the same disk as GRU
On Thursday 18 January 2018 12:42:41 deloptes wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs
> > to refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
>
> what is the reason to avoid UUIDs? (if not very private)
UUID's have turn
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 11:52:11 (-0500), Marc Auslander wrote:
> Dave Sherohman writes:
>
> >What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
> >refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
> >
>
> I don't know about "recommended" but could you put your ow
Dave Sherohman wrote:
> What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
> refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
what is the reason to avoid UUIDs? (if not very private)
Dave Sherohman writes:
>What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
>refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
>
I don't know about "recommended" but could you put your own menu
entry into /etc/grub.d and make it the default?
On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 07:19:45 (-0600), Dave Sherohman wrote:
> My guess at explaining this would be that the GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID
> flag is very literal and *only* affects whether "GRUB [passes]
> "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux", but not how grub itself identifies
> the root device ("set r
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:11:32AM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Do, Jan 18, 2018 at 03:31:30 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
> >refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
>
> In /etc/default/grub I have
On Do, Jan 18, 2018 at 03:31:30 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
In /etc/default/grub I have the option:
# Uncomment if you don’t want GRUB to pass „root=UUID=xxx”
Hi,
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:31:30 -0600
Dave Sherohman wrote:
> What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
> refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
not sure about this; have you tried to set
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
in /etc/default/grub
What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
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In an attempt to head off a "but you really want to use UUIDs!" debate:
The specific use-case I'm dealing with here is cloned virtual machines.
When I clone
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