The "uniqueness" of UUIDs

2024-11-25 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, George at Clug wrote: "$ lsblk -f" output is very nice ! Thanks. I tried this and noticed UUID duplication in the output. Here is part of what I saw: NAMEFSTYPEFSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT ... sd

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 26-11-2024 at 17:03 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Many thanks to all of you who have replied to my questions. > It seems that I've been creating trouble for myself by trying > to kludge something together from the old installation. > The only reason I tried this was the age-old problem I >

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Charlie Gibbs
Many thanks to all of you who have replied to my questions. It seems that I've been creating trouble for myself by trying to kludge something together from the old installation. The only reason I tried this was the age-old problem I have whenever I start from a fresh install: I lose all my customi

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:07:35AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more human-friendly than UUIDs. The idea of UUIDs is that they are "unique", so you can run two OS installs automatically without the disk IDs colliding. We l

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread David Christensen
On 11/24/24 17:56, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have a 20-year-old box which was nonetheless enough to run Debian Bookworm (12.5) - but the video card, equipped with an Nvidia GeForce 610 GPU, was too old.  I was getting messages on boot saying that it was only supported by drivers up to version 390, w

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 26-11-2024 at 02:33 Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2024-11-25 09:21 (UTC-0600): > > > On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote: > > >> George at Clug wrote: > > >>> I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > >>> partition, then used "b

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:33:35 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2024-11-25 09:21 (UTC-0600): > > On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote: > >> George at Clug wrote: > > >>> I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > >>> partition, then used "blk

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2024-11-25 17:50 (UTC-0500): > Given that you dd-copied a file system, you might consider changing > the UUID of the new copy. Assuming this is an ext4 file system, > tune2fs(8) has a -U option that looks like it should do the job. > Specifically, "-U random" looks promi

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 17:37:28 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > I'm not Thomas, but here you go. If you do > > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 > > to copy sda1 to sdb1, they get the same UUID. Which makes one question the > Uniqueness part. I ran into that, and my solution was to use the actual > de

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread eben
On 11/25/24 12:36, Default User wrote: > > Thomas, would you mind elaborating on, or give a link to an > explanation of: > > "Of course, this UUID uniqueness thing starts looking ever more > flimsy once you start bit-copying file systems . . . " > > I'm not sure I understand what bit-copying of fil

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi, On Thu Nov 21, 2024 at 6:30 AM GMT, David Wright wrote: > But can I ask you why you stopped using f=f when you changed address. It wasn't a change of address, but a change of MUA or MUA config. I certainly had it enabled at some point with mutt, and I changed the way I used mutt (from mostly

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Hans
I am not sure, what you are intend to do. If you want a new bootable harddrive, I suggest, to clone the old (maybe smaller one) to the new one using clonezilla. After it you can resize the partitions of new one to your needs and then mount the old one to any folder you want (maybe "/space" or "

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Default User
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 18:59 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Default User wrote: > > [...] > > > Thomas, would you mind elaborating on, or give a link to an > > explanation of: > > > > "Of course, this UUID uniqueness thing starts looking ever more > >

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Default User wrote: [...] > Thomas, would you mind elaborating on, or give a link to an > explanation of: > > "Of course, this UUID uniqueness thing starts looking ever more > flimsy once you start bit-copying file systems . . . " > > I'm not sure I u

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Default User
On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 17:59 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:07:35AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: > > > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > > > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manual

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread eben
On 11/25/24 10:21, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote: >> On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: >>> I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant >>> partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a >>> mount point to "/etc/

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-25 Thread gene heskett
On 11/24/24 12:06, Hans wrote: Hello Alexander, thank you very much for your response. Short answer: Not usable. Hmm, that is a pity. Long answer: As a rule of thumb, never trust AliExpress product descriptions. +100 or more. I bought a voron trident, $1300 + ship, 3 years ago? Carton a

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:07:35AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: > > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a > > mount point to "/etc/fstab".  The resulting paths may

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2024-11-25 09:21 (UTC-0600): > On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote: >> George at Clug wrote: >>> I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant >>> partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a >>> mount point to "/etc/f

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread David Wright
On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote: > On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: > > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a > > mount point to "/etc/fstab".  The resulting paths may be a bit

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread eben
On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a > mount point to "/etc/fstab".  The resulting paths may be a bit ugly, > but I am lazy. I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more h

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-25 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 24.11.2024 22:05, Hans wrote: Long answer: As a rule of thumb, never trust AliExpress product descriptions. You have to always look up _specifications_ on Intel official website or websites of other vendors.Seller claims this device has N100 CPU [1], but in Characteristics section it is actual

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:56:25 -0800 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > When re-booting, I went into the BIOS screen, and saw that the SSD was > first in the boot order. However, this probably doesn't mean much if > I didn't get it set up properly. The machine boots, but apparently > falls back to the hard