This is intentional behavior for parted. gparted has a feature request
to offer to change the UUID, see bug #737387. I suppose partman could
offer the same.
** Package changed: parted (Ubuntu) => partman-partitioning (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: partman-partitioning (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium =
I suggest expanding the "copy partition" behaviour to include backup and
restore functions in addition to the existing clone capability. If one
may be permitted to add an empty tag file to one of the partitions then
the UUIDs can be handled without user intervention. More detail here:-
http://br
Probably not a "good" feature. Useful or not, it would be an unexpected
behavior and defeats the purpose of UUIDs. It reduces them to a less
friendly version of LABEL. That is, insignificantly safer and much less
user friendly.
A copied partition would be expected to have the same label, but not
Maybe it would be better to consider this bug as a feature? (rather
useful by my experience in backing up root and home partitions ;) ) and
provide a switch to turn it on and off. Or a way to change uuid manually
if needed...
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copying partition results in duplicate uuid
https://bugs.launchpad.n
** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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copying partition results in duplicate uuid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148743
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