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   Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:34:37 JST Brodie Robertson

   Was very confused why my cloned drive was not being mounted I found out that UUID are stored as part of the file system and when you clone a drive you also clone the ID of the partitions, this creates a fun situation where you have 2 partitions with identical unique identifiers.

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:36:48 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • Amber (aka kemona_halftau)

     @amberdambey Well I know what would happen, which ever is last in the port order would be the only 1 mounted

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     Amber (aka kemona_halftau) (amberdambey@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:36:49 JST Amber (aka kemona_halftau)

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     @BrodieOnLinux easy solution: make every single partition have the same uuid

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     BigLinter (biglinter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:37:11 JST BigLinter

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     @BrodieOnLinux sounds like a part of cloning you possibly might want a commandline flag to set for?

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:37:11 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • BigLinter

     @biglinter Maybe, I just used Clonezilla so it's probably an option in advanced mode

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:38:20 JST Brodie Robertson

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     It's an easy fix if I wanted to keep using it, there's a tool to just randomize the UUID again

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:47:32 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • aliceif

     @aliceif There's probably a warning in journalctl, but I haven't checked

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     aliceif (aliceif@mkultra.x27.one)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 16:47:34 JST aliceif

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     @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social Also a fun thing to run into when doing stuff with VMs, Virtualbox at least does not like knowing two VDIs with the same ID

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 17:14:36 JST Wolf480pl

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     @BrodieOnLinux
     btw there are also partuuids in the GPT partition table if you're using that, you may want to check those as well.

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Nov-2025 17:14:36 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl I don't need the old drive so I've unplugged it now