On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
Rick Thomas schrieb:
2) if reformatting is necessary or desired, have the option
(default) of preserving the UUID.
This would be an useful option for all partitions, not only for swap,
for people like me who dare to test DI in a spare pa
On 20101221_031624, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> >> On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
> >>> uu
On 20101221_040215, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon
> wrote:
> > On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Debian Installer insists on reformatting any swap partitions it
> >>> finds, ev
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon
wrote:
> On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> The Debian Installer insists on reformatting any swap partitions it
>>> finds, even though that partition, specified by UUID, is
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>
>>> Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
>>> uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-s
On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
> >> uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
>> uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during
>> formatting.
>
> Which raises a question tha
Camaleón wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
> >
> > /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?
>
> If you have not label defined for any volume, the node won't be
> automatically created.
Ah... I see. I learned someth
Stephen Powell wrote:
> /dev is a pseudo file system created by udev. Under ordinary conditions,
> no data in it persists across reboots. I suspect that udev does not create
> a /dev/by-label directory unless it detects a disk partition with a label
> during boot.
>
> Perhaps none of Bob's parti
On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during
formatting.
Which raises a question that has been on my mind for a while...
The Debian Installer insists on r
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:51:28 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <20101218221908.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>> Bob Proulx wrote:
ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>>>
>>> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
>>
>> /dev/disk/by-label ??
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:19:08 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>>
>> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
>
> /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?
>
> $ ls -log /dev/disk/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 12
In <20101218221908.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote:
>Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>>
>> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
>
>/dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?
$ ls /dev/disk
by-id by-label by-path by-uuid
$
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>
> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
/dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?
$ ls -log /dev/disk/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 1240 Dec 16 11:26 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 380 Dec 16 11:26 by-path
drwxr-xr
Bob Proulx wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
What is 'vol_id' ?
That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must
have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id
--uuid try running blkid.
man blkid
That brings up a q
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > What is 'vol_id' ?
> >
> > That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must
> > have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id
> > --uuid try running blkid.
> >
> > man blkid
>
> Tha
Bob Proulx wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer
in Squeeze contains the following comment lines:
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# t
Paul E Condon wrote:
> The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer
> in Squeeze contains the following comment lines:
>
> # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
> # that works
The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer
in Squeeze contains the following comment lines:
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and remo
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