I've got an interesting problem (at least to me).....

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Thu Sep 29 14:57:17 UTC 2011



On 09/29/2011 08:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:58:06 -0500
> Kevin Martin wrote:
>
>> or is
>> something odd going on here?
> Odds are good that the /etc/fstab file refers to partition UUID
> values to identify what to mount. If you have completely duplicated
> the driver with a dd command, those UUIDs will be ambiguous and
> which ever one it stumbles across first is the one it will use.
Ooooohhhhh, didn't occur to me that that information would be dd'd!  Crud!    Guess I'm off to do some partition copies!

Thanks.

Kevin


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