On Wed, 22 May 2013, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > So, I have a CentOS 6 system, and I want to make several clones of it. I'm > using Clonezilla to clone the drives; that's no problem. But the drive UUIDs > are driving me up the wall. After cloning, the two drives have the same UUID, > but I'd like each clone to have different UUIDs so there's no possibility of > a conflict when I am running diagnostics with two drives installed, etc. But > when I change the UUID of the /boot or / partition (even if I update > /etc/fstab), the system won't boot; it GRUBs OK (after I use recovery mode to > rerun grub-install), but never gets to the 'Welcome to CentOS " message. Do > I need to "rebless" vmlinuz or initrd or initramfs in the /boot partition if > I change the drive UUID?
tunee2fs or reisrfstune can probably do what you want. > Or should I just ignore UUID and go back to using labels in /etc/fstab (which > is what I did in CentOS 5)? I'd use labels and I'd make them systematic labels, e.g. disklabel-partitionlabel. This is likely to start another religious flame war. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
