I agree some of the points you mentioned but that leads to problems. Situation
actually depends on what user plans to do. No change of UUID is needed if the
new partition will not be used in the same computer with the old one and no
further editing of destination partition will now be done.
FYI / temporary fix:
You can fix invalid UUID manually. Run uuidgen, that will give you a
new UUID. Use tune2fs to change that UUID for your partition.
For example, let's assume that uuidgen answered fe05703f-
87f5-44ef-8224-ff3eb501a98f, command
sudo tune2fs -U /dev/sdb1
I guess it would be nice if GParted would be able to change the UUID
after copying, but I also think changing it unconditionally is probably
going to surprise people for some use cases?
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Thanks Arto for reporting this concern.
Since there are situations in which a person wishes an exact duplicate
of the partition, I do not think it is wrong to leave the UUID the same.
Perhaps it would help if GParted displayed a message for copy operations
that indicated to the user that if they
