This one time, at band camp, david wrote: >Edgy generates UUID's for partitions when installing, but if a new >partition is created there is no UUID for it > >How do i create a UUID so that the system relates it to the new >partition? Hours of googling hasn't hit the spot yet. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ apropos uuid >findfs (8) - Find a filesystem by label or UUID >uuid (3tcl) - UUID generation and comparison >uuidgen (1) - command-line utility to create a new UUID value >vol_id (8) - probe filesystem type and read label and uuid > >None of those look like what I want.
YOu want to set a UUID on a, for exapmle, ext2 filesystem? Try tune2fs, for all your ext2 filesystem tuning needs! tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 will show the UUID, and -U will let you set it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
