root partition move

[Aviss,Tyler]

Anyone else have the UUIDs bugger up after a kernel update? What are  
they generated from?

(sent from my phone, so please excuse the typos)

On 27-Jul-09, at 9:28 AM, lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart  
Sorensen) wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:42:41PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> A while back I saved my linux partition using a rescue disk along  
>> with
>> partimage.
>> I recently did a restore of the system without any issues just to
>> verify the process, because I like to tinker with stuff =)
>>
>> I am wondering though, would it be possible to move the root  
>> partition
>> to another partition during the restore? What would be required to
>> tell the kernel to use say /dev/sdb2 instead of /dev/sdb8 to mount
>> root? a simple change to /etc/fstab?
>>
>> Would the partition move break any other programs from running, or
>> linkage i.e. /etc/ld.so.conf? or is stuff in here pretty self
>> contained to the file structure layout irrelevant to what partition
>> it's mounted on?  I would think is the case.
>
> If you fix /etc/fstab, and update your bootloader as needed, then it
> should be fine.  Of course if you use UUIDs or LABELs, then you don't
> even have to update the fstab.
>
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