Questions tagged [uuid]
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changing uuid of /run/media/root/ partition
I have a usb disk and after formatting it shows up as /run/media/root/abc213 where abc123 is some much longer complex string that no normal person would be able to remember... typical of what you ...
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Rename file and convert to lowercase
This command is to rename files using uuidgen:
zmv '(*)(.*)' '`uuidgen | head -c 8`$2'
Could someone show how to convert resulting string to lowercase?
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What is UUID_SUB?
The output from blkid shows a post called UUID_SUB on my BTRFS-volumes. What does that mean and where can I find more info?
/dev/sdc: LABEL="example" UUID="e7c116be-e3ba-4097-857b-...
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Linux creating new media every time
I'm new Linux user so be kind.
Whenever I boot my Linux on PC I get different uuid from media.
See this dir: /media/my_name/2B283D3C465F37B722/folder_name/folder_namev1
And when I open for example ...
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Trouble Mounting RAID
I have a RAID array that I cannot seem to mount after a power failure. The mount error says it cannot find the UUID even though it is to UUID reported by mdadm.
mdadm --examine --scan
ARRAY /dev/md/0 ...
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grub still tries to mount cryptodisk by its old UUID after changing it
I have a Linux system with the following disk setup (MBR-formatted, BIOS-booted):
sda 32G disk
└─sda1 ...
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Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device ubuntu 22.04
My laptop has ubuntu 22 and windows OS installed. Ubuntu was logged in. Mistakenly, I forgot to plug the charger and battery drained. When I tried to restart, I can see grub menu, but then it loads ...
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How can you give a disk and a new UUID?
I just used sfdisk to clone my partition table to a new disk,
sudo sfdisk -d /dev/nvme0n1 > /tmp/part.txt
sudo sfdisk /dev/nvme1n1 < /tmp/part.txt
However, now both drives have the same uuid. ...
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Are UUIDs and PTUUIDs important for MBR disks? If so, how do I create them on my own?
I'm studying partitioning under Linux, starting with sfdisk. If I copy a partition table from one drive to another, it'll copy the device UUID and the PTUUIDs for each partition, but if I'm creating a ...
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Systemd is eternally stuck on a start-job when I go to boot from my cloned-to NVME. How do I get my system to boot?
I cloned my hard drive using Clonezilla Live to an NVME SSD. My system is EndeavourOS, Systemd, KDE.
When booting, Systemd makes it to the Basic Machine job and then it starts the A start job is ...
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how is grub(2) able to hardcode root=
I just had a whole series of problems with boot on my Debian system (SID) suddenly it reported:
/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found.
Eventually I got it back (fsck moved lots of stuff from /boot into ...
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Unable to change UUID of exFAT USB drive using tune2fs [duplicate]
I am trying to change the UUID of a USB stick formatted with exFAT. I double checked that /dev/sdb2 is the correct target. The entire USB contains one exFAT partition with no empty space. When I try ...
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Drives under /media/user/ are denoted by an alphanumeric string - how are they generated?
I noticed that my thumb drives and hard drivers are in the location /media/user and are denoted as a string of alphabets and numbers instead of their names such as 1A2B-3C4D. I never named my drives ...
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Clonezilla generates disk clone with wrong/unupdated UUIDs
[original question in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73959107/clonezilla-generates-disk-clone-with-wrong-unupdated-uuids]
I recently used clonezilla (disk-to-disk) - both stable and alternative ...
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Pop!_OS - "A start job is for [inexistant UUID]" at boot
I'm currently dual-booting Windows 10 and PopOS. Every time I boot in PopOS, a grey screen appears. If I press ESC, a black console says
"A start job is running for /dev/disk/by_uuid/f054b... (...
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