On Thursday 18 January 2018 16:04:26 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system > > > > upgrades. > > > > > > Not on mine. > > > > I have had the UUID change on this system, on my > > amandatapes drive at almost every install or upgrade. > > Which UUID changed? The filesystem UUID shouldn't change unless you > reformat the partition, and the partition UUID shouldn't change unless > you repartition it (or you specifically change the UUID). > In this case, I installed a fresh firmware image on the drive, didn't lose a byte, but the UUID was changed, discovered when amanda couldn't find its virtual tapes drive after the reboot. I checked the fstab, then ran blkid, and it had changed. So I applied a label to the partition, edited fstab, and its been 69,600 or so spinning hours since. I've updated the system from ubuntu hardy to debian wheezy, no change.
One of these days I need to convert it to 64 bit. Probably by putting most of that stuff on the amandatapes partition, putting in a fresh 1T drive, and installing a 64 bit jessie. Once thats running, I have a 2T drive that I'll format for amanda and swap this one out. Nothing wrong with it, but I keep adding more machines to the disklist. 7 now. > I've been using UUIDs for *ages*, and I've never seen one change > unless I've specifically done something which would change it. Cheers, Gene Heskett The above content, added by Maurice E. Heskett, is Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
