On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM tomas wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 09:45:11AM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM wrote: > > [...] > > > > What do you do if you get two USBs containing file systems with > > > the same UUID? > > > > Is that possible? I suppose it is.. so I'd go looking for how to > > change the UUID for one of the usb drives. > > If you copy a whole file system (e.g. with dd), the UUID will > travel with it. It's just data, after all. Sometimes you want it, > sometimes not.
If I'm copying from one usb to another it seems like I really would not want the same UUID on both usb sticks. And it sounds like it would be fairly easy to fix the duplicate UUID problem.. > If you then modify one file system's content, you'll get two > file systems with the same UUID and... with different data =:-o > > The horrors :) > > Remember: the second "U" in "UUID" is a lie ;-) uhmm... to remember something one first has to know/learn it. I'm asking all these ignorant questions because I'm not there yet. Thanks, Lee
