1 Oct
2011
1 Oct
'11
6:56 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
UUID is, IMHO at least, the worst of all worlds due to the length and the user-unfriendliness of it all (it's been the Ubuntu default for a while, though!). It is guaranteed unique (until you use complete clones), but is the most difficult to change and use.
Surely it is a single command? Two if you have to generate the UUID. On my home machine I cloned my boot drive, then set the UUID of the second drive with:
prompt> uuidgen then cut and paste into prompt> tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -U c491d94e-7004-4b08-9993-4c9a7a25b6b1 and check it with prompt> blkid
Cheers,
Cliff