[arch-general] 2 partitions with same UUID

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 02:04:42 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 07:03 +0200, kurrata wrote:
> I had problems with launching win xp it was crashing often since it 
> didn't like my sata hard(sdb) drive or that it wasn't on boot disk most 
> likely and since my root started to run out of space I decided to make 
> some changes.
> move sda1(root) to sda2 while increasing sda2 size and install windows 
> on sda1.
> sda is ata hard drive
> I increased sda2(it was used to test other linux distro) size up to 10gb 
> from ~5.5GB with gparted
> Then did "dd if="/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda2" from live usb install.
> Now when I do "sudo blkid" it shows that both sda1 and sda2 have same UIID.
> Any ideas how could I fix this?
> 
Reformat one of them. Or change its size. dd makes an identical copy, so
no surprise the UUID is the same.



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