Hi, please send the exact steps you used to reproduce this, instead of just giving me conclusions. And please tell me what version of Ubuntu/e2fsprogs you were using, thanks.
When you say "blkid", do you mean the blkid program, or the /etc/blkid.tab file? When you run the /sbin/blkid program, it will scan the devices which are currently available and revalidate the partitions before printing out the results. If the /etc/blkid.tab fle is writeable, it will update /etc/blkid.tab with the results. I have tested this by editing /etc/blkid.tab and changing the labels and uuid's in /etc/blkid.tab, and then running the /sbin/blkid program, and prints the correct results. If it is not doing this for you, I need the exact steps that you used to replicate your problem. If what you are complaining about is that partition imaging software is changing the UUID of the restored partition, but not changing the UUID in /etc/fstab, or that when you reformat the swap-space, all possible /etc/fstab files aren't getting updated, that's not blkid's problem. It's not responsible for the contents of /etc/fstab. It would be up to the partition imaging software to update /etc/fstab, and how to deal with the reformating the swap space problem is a hard one, but I would submit that's not a common case, and a system administrator who tries to install a second Linux system on the same computer is going to have to be responsible for editing /etc/fstab on the first installed system. -- blkid shows outdated / wrong UUID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137314 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
