[Arm-dev] UUID for partitions

[Robert Moskowitz]

I will give this a try on Monday.

On 12/25/2015 03:30 PM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
>>>> So every installation from an image will have the same UUIDs.
>>> Yes
>> this is a bad idea, it means you cant ( or will haveto do some work )
>> if you ever intend to share media. onprem, lesser issue ( likely only
>> when disaster recovery is involved ), but this is a much bigger issue
>> in offprem, where block device mobility is part of the larger picture
>> and taken for granted.
>>
>> so, we should fix it.
>>
>> - - KB
> I just finished writing a script to change UUIDs and LABELs.
> It's changeuuid.py in https://github.com/mndar/rbf/tree/master/commonscripts
> It doesn't depend on anything else in the repo, so you can just
> download that script.
>
> Sample Usage:
>
> # just show what is going to change
> ./changeuuid.py pretend /dev/sdb /tmp/temp/
>
> # actually change
> ./changeuuid.py change /dev/sdb /tmp/temp/
>
> Refer the README for more details. Let me know if you have any issues.
>
> -Mandar Joshi
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