Questions tagged [uuid]
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Short and long uuids under /dev/disk/by-uuid
There are several hard disk partitions on my system (Linux josDeb 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.144-3.1 (2019-02-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux). It is working with:
bejo@josDeb:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
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Why use udev rules for naming, if we could just use /dev/disk/by-uuid?
I don't understand the inclination towards using udev rules for raw devices. Example for Oracle ASM devices, it recommends using udev rules for naming raw devices, as the device order can be ...
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How to tell without knowing the mount point that a device UUID is mounted?
System: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon 64-bit, based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
I would like to know if it is possible to get the following information:
Is this UUID (of a block device) mounted or not? (without ...
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reliable scripting way of obtaining UUID of boot partition
I want to script a somewhat automated method for editing /etc/default/grub and appending fips=1 boot=UUID=???? to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=
coincidentally /etc/fstab contains UUID=12345blabla /boot xfs ...
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Partition recovered
Partitions MBR has been destroyed accidentally by a friend, Then most partitions are unviewable which is too bad, can all the partitions be recovered? I have a text file including the original ...
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Create unique random numbers (UUIDs) in bash
I want to create random unique numbers (UUIDs) as the following
node.id=ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff
First I tried this
$ rndnum=` echo $RANDOM"-"echo $RANDOM"-"echo $RANDOM"-"echo $RANDOM"-...
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System goes into initramfs mode
I am trying to boot my system but it goes to initramfs and nothing happens.
On using exit command it shows:
ALERT! UUID=3668c6fc-7986-490b-8642-705c4532d16a does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
On ...
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How to make exfat appear as a disk on Computer (RedHat 6)
I have a redhat 6 on 1TB HDD and another 1TB HDD with exfat format, anyway on Computer I can find the drive where redhat installed but not the exfat drive.
I do add a line to /etc/fstab for auto ...
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Drive won't boot from its Grub, but will from another drive's Grub, after cloning, why?
It was a month ago, so if you ask me on details, I might still remember, but better act on information that can be given as of now. Due to the lack of time, I did not ask for help here.
I have cloned ...
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What are the use cases for a hard disk's WWN?
I noticed today while setting up a new system that the disk as represented by /dev/disk/by-id also had a WWN link that I was not familiar with:
My research suggests that this is a "World Wide Number" ...
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How do I create a zpool using uuid or truly unique identifier?
I created my first zpool the other day, assigning by drive letter, and found that when I rebooted it was degraded. Upon closer inspection, I realized that my drive letters had changed with reboot, so ...
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Add PARTUUID to DOS MBR
I have an MBR style formatted SD card where I need a PARTUUID in order to mount a partition there as the rootfs (via linux kernel parameter root=PARTUUID=...). Using an fs UUID does not work.
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UUID of fs - where are they stored?
Recently I tried to install Ubuntu Studio 18 and upon restart was given GRUB prompt, not Linux graphic login. Surprised, I started to investigate and found that grub.cfg file in ESP partition contains ...
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How to change UUID after cloning a Mac HDD with `dd`?
After 1 day of googling and try&error I give up and ask for help.
Long story short: I cloned internal HDD of my iMac (Mid 2011) to external SDD with dd command. Now I have two identical discs ...
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what is the advantage to configure the network ETH with UUID?
what is the advantage to configure the network with UUID?
uuidgen eno093736
1b64d026-c6a6-447c-85aa-40c5d2db2c4e
for example we want to configure BOND under /etc/sysconfig/network-script
what is ...
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Store a custom serial number on a USB flash drive, immune to overwriting
I'm working with massive amounts of USB flash memory.
I'd like to be able to track events regarding the USB drives.
Specifically: I perform f3 tests, format the drives and write data to them.
I'm ...
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Can't run 'update-grub'
I've got some trouble with my Ubuntu-System:
update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
grub-probe: error: disk `mduuid/c7ac5a8fef833db7b45d6c2ebb2e20e6,1' not found.
But I'm still able to ...
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how to perform xfs_repair on disk that is actually UUID
we have redhat machines version 6.x
we want to fix the file-system on one of our disks
UUID=198s5364-a29c-429e-b16d-e772acd /data_SA xfs rw,noatime,inode64,allocsize=16m 1 2
but ...
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When trying to mount my UUID can't be found, how can I find
Hello I'm new to all this so please bare with me. I'm in the works of building a lighting node, and run the command [sudo mount -a] I get this error saying my UUID I can't be found.
Can someone ...
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UUID's when changing hardware
My question is this...
In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eno1 there is a UUID to identify the on-board network interface.
I also notice now that some partitions in fstab are also identified by ...
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Why use UUIDs in /etc/fstab instead of device names? [duplicate]
What is the reasoning behind using UUIDs in /etc/fstab instead of device names (like /dev/sbd2)?
Device names &/or partition numbers seem substantially cleaner from an administrative viewpoint.
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debian stretch UUID package
I am running Debian 9.3 (Stretch). I am trying to install some tools from Vmware and it asks for a package UUID 0.03 or newer. How can I upgrade UUID to newer version? It does not proceed any further ...
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Slackware64 14.2 - GRUB2 - How set default <UUID> instead <DEVICE>?
i am trying the grub configuration file "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" in the kernel line, set "root=UUID=" instead "root=/dev/"
for example when i ran :
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
the file /boot/...
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Migrating Linux to new system
I read a couple posts about migrating Linux from one PC to another PC and my understanding is that Linux will just move and work without issue. Based on my changes this should be true.
I am waiting ...
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is it possible to capture the UUID number before creating file system on disk
is it possible to capture the UUID number before creating file system on disk?
if yes how - by which command ?
blkid ( before run mkfs.ext4 on sdb disk )
<no output>
blkid ( after run mkfs....
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how to identify UUID conf or ordinary dev conf from fstab
we need to add disks on more then 100 redhat machines,
therefore we need to update also the /etc/fstab on each machine
the problem is that some machines configured with UUID and other with ordinary ...
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UUID in fstab + in which cases we must not configured UUID in fstab
discussion - we have redhat linux machines and my question is about the UUID configuration in /etc/fstab file , and in which cases UUID risk the OS
as I understand we MUST NOT use UUID in /etc/...
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in which cases it will be problematic to configure UUID in fstab
We are thinking about to change all Linux fstab configuration to work with UUID instead the current configuration
Some of the disks are with non RAID and some of the disks are with RAID10
I searched ...
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Strange mdadm raid1 uuid behavior [duplicate]
Command: # mdadm --detail /dev/md0,
UUID: UUID : 75ef0eb7:26381ba8:a00e8abd:98c0de06
Command: # ls -lh /dev/disk/by-uuid/,
UUID: c016314e-55fc-4a03-b3d2-4d2862cce7cc -> ../../md0
Why are UUIDs ...
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Why does systemd wait for a disk not present in `fstab`?
My system takes exactly 95 seconds to boot: 5 seconds actual boot and 90 seconds waiting for a nonexistent drive:
(...boot.log...)
A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2duuid-6bbb4ed8\x2d53ea\...
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Bluetooth controller vs device UUID handle mismatch affecting pairing?
I've been Googling for 2 days and cannot find a fix that works for me.
I'm running into a wall trying to pair a Bluetooth mouse. I think my issue is related to a mismatch between the UUID handles ...
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How to properly mount other partitions (NTFS) on my Fedora FSH?
I recently switched to Fedora 27 Beta (UEFI install, dual-boot with Win 10), and I changed my /etc/fstab to include the two following lines:
UUID=D0E24ECDE24EB78C /media/DownloadsBin ntfs-3g auto,...
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Is machine-id a uuid?
I searched my question and none of them answered me:
Is machine-id as unique as mainboard UUID (fetched by
"get csproduct UUID" command on windows)? And is enough reliable to bind a license on machine-...
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How to update fstab file with UUID?
The following lines are defined in my /etc/fstab file.
My current fstab:
/dev/sdb /lpo/sda ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/sdc /lpo/sdb ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
From blkid we get:
/dev/sdb: UUID="...
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Linux on external USB drive won't boot on other computers
I have GNU/Linux (currently Fedora 26, but previously Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya) installed on an external hard drive alongside an NTFS partition I use for storage – and it boots perfectly on the computer ...
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mdadm.conf: devices by UUID, re-plug-in to another cable for example
Server: Dell T20 with additional SATA PCI-E controller, 5 SATA drives plugged in at the moment. All GPT partitioned.
System: GNU/Linux Debian 9 Stretch.
Situation: I often change HDD configuration ...
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sda and sdb keep on swapping
The box is a HP microserver, running Ubuntu 16.04. I recently "upgraded" the boot device to a 64GB SSD. Additionally there is a 1TB SATA drive.
usually it boots up with /dev/sda1 as the primary ...
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Force disk onto /dev/sdX
I'm trying to ddrescue (through rescueCD) a drive, which keeps spinning down. e.g
ddrescue -N -n -A -M -f /dev/sdk /dev/sdd mapfile
Without rebooting I can get the drive for a short while through
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blkid returns more information than expected
I'm following a recipe I created a couple of years ago, where at one point I need to use blkid to obtain a filesystem UUID.
I have this command noted, along with an expected example return value:
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Can someone explain this weird ps behavior?
Two issues:
pf -fU <user> not showing particular user processes while ps -ef | grep <user> or ps aux can.
pstree -p <pid>, where pid is that particular process I mentioned above, ...
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What command always generates the same UUID through /proc/sys/kernel
Running the following command generates different random output on each execution (which is expected, considering that random is in the path):
cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
Is there any way to ...
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Does Grub2 have a way of uniquely labelling the menu entries that can be used to set the default for booting?
Does grub2 have a means of selecting a menu entry by a unique label instead of the current numbering system which results in commands like grub-reboot '1>3', GRUB_DEFAULT="1", GRUB_DEFAULT="1>3"?...
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“Gave up waiting for root device” with one kernel but not another
I have a Linux system with kernels 3.10.17 and 4.8.4 installed, but only the older kernel can boot. Trying the newer one, "Gave up waiting for root device" occurs along with a bunch of "modprobe: Can'...
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Extract UUID value from JSON returned from HTTP reply
I am trying to make a little script in shellscript that takes one serviceUuid from a response and use it.
I just print the server response on a file called final.txt
Now i need to extract the value ...
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What are kernel UUIDs? Why would they be crazy sh!t?
I've watched DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds, and at about 19:50 Linux mentions how "UUIDs are crazy sh!t."
What are UUIDs used for (at the kernel level)? What does Linus mean by this?
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mdadm Raid 1 OS array dissappeared, UUID's all zeros
A little backstory because I'm not sure what's relevant...
I set up a file server at a school here in West Africa where they teach computer classes, ESL, and a few other things. Though it's used ...
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Only half of my drives assemble during a RAID recovery
I have an 8 drive RAID I am trying to recover. The assemble only found 4 of the 8 drives. Why are the other drives not found?
me@mjf-svr:~$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] ...
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Cannot boot up when Adaptec SCSI card is replaced
Current Fedora 19 installation is on an Adaptec 29320 and I am trying to
temporarily replace it with an Adaptec 29160. The functionality of the cards is
very nearly the same except the replacement is ...
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How to identify root partition via UUID without initramfs/initrd
Without initramfs/initrd support, the following kernel command line won't work:
linux /bzImage root=UUID=666c2eee-193d-42db-a490-4c444342bd4e ro
How can I identify my root partition via UUID ...
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fstab entry for swap space
Here is the free -m output
[prem@myserver: /home/prem]$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 991 218 85 267 ...
