Questions tagged [uuid]
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grub-mkconfig generates errant grub.cfg that boots the wrong partition (UUID)
Upshot: Grub v2.06 generates a grub.cfg that boots the wrong partition
Cause: different bootable partitions were assigned the same root=UUID in grub.cfg in the "linux" boot specification. ...
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Windows UUID Does not match motherboard (digits are shuffled)
I have a few laptops with Windows 10 installed and I can use
(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystemProduct).UUID in PowerShell
to get each machine's UUID. What's interesting is that the UUID I get ...
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How to generate a column of unique IDs (UUIDs) in LibreOffice Calc?
How to insert a column of unique codes (UUIDs) in LibreOffice?
If that's not possible with LibreOffice itself, how could one generate UUIDs in a way so that they can be simply copy and pasted into a ...
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Fix For Blanked Out UUID On Luks Encrypted Drive?
Problem:
When I mount a Luks Encrypted drive, the drive mounts, but I can't access the files.
The drive is the root drive. It has ElementaryOS installed on it.
It booted fine, until after doing some ...
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How to make two laptops running Windows 10 use the same user id for sharing files?
I have several Windows 10 laptops with a (Sabrent) USB disk cloner (and 2.5" (SATA?) disks I can insert into it) that I plug into each to move partitions back and forth and I want essentially one ...
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Is it related to Windows 10 update?
My Windows 10 wasn't updating so I checked the UUID of BIOS which was all zeroes.
Also, I used this code snippet to check it in Windows itself.
wmic path win32_computersystemproduct get UUID.
And I ...
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Could UUID be used as IPv6 address instead of the current format?
Both IPv6 address (eg. 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334) and UUID (eg. 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000) are 128-bit numbers.
Could the Internet Engineering Task Force (who created IPv6) ...
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System UUID got nulled in BIOS
My HP laptop was working fine before I tried installing MacOS in it.
I got success in installing MacOS Big Sur where I changed the UUID in the config.plist.
But after uninstalling it (I just deleted ...
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Module not found: Can't resolve 'uuid/v4'
I am a beginner in React programming and I was following this tutorial in Youtube: https://youtu.be/hQAHSlTtcmY and everything went well until it was required to install uuid library and after that ...
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UUID in Windows
I'm searching for a some sort of unique windows/machine-internal ID which can be read using "CMD". I found the UUID/GUID which can be read like this:
wmic csproduct get uuid
I couldn't find a proper ...
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Is a Windows 10 pro sticker OEM or retail?
In contacting the seller of a PC, they wrote this about the license:
It will come with Windows 10 Professional installed and activated.
There will also be a Windows 10 Professional license ...
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What happens to the license when a Windows VM is deleted?
I'm considering purchasing a Windows 10 PC, but would probably want only to run Windows in a VM on the original hardware.
However, it's not inconceivable that I might delete the VM, or even format ...
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How can I find the UUID for network cards?
It's easy to see them in use on, for example, a modern Fedora Core Server - like on version 30 — in the network configuration scripts found in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory.
Okay, I ...
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Why do vfat partitions have a special GUID/UUID format in GUID Partition Tables?
According to the Wikipedia article on the GUID Partition Table, the partition GUID's reside in the Partition entries (LBA 2-33) just after the Primary GPT Header at the beginning of the volume. As ...
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No UUID for partition when partitioning a new disk
I am working on partitioning a new disk, on which nothing is stored yet, so I also need a completely new partition table, etc. To try doing this, I first made a GPT partition table and then assigned ...
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What part of the Windows 10 SDK do I need to install to get uuidgen?
I would like to install uuidgen, which I have read comes with the Windows 10 SDK. When I go through the installer, there are a lot of parts I can choose, and I don't want to install 2.9 GB of stuff I ...
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mkfs. any way to personalize the uuid generation?
Running mkfs.<type> [...] generates a File System and its UUID. any way to personalize it? In a fashion like "not generate UUID with numbers '4' and '5' or letters 'b' 'c' ".
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How does Windows create disk partition volume GUID's and why do they very often end in 6963 - especially for C:\ partitions?
I'm trying to determine, how Windows creates the GUID for a given disk volume. What are the various components / sections of a given volume GUID, and what is each section referring too, in a typical ...
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Assign a device filename by UUID?
I have a system with multiple drives installed. I can see a list of all drives along with their UUIDs and labels using the blkid command (omitting some lines for conciseness):
root@ubuntu:~/avl# ...
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Put the text content of a website into a variable vba Excel
This function is wrong:
Function UUID() As String
UUID = Workbooks.OpenText("https://www.uuidgenerator.net/api/version1") 'Compile Error: Expected Function Or Variable
End Function
What is the ...
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Disk UUID from blkid output disappears
I'm experiencing a weird situation on RHEL-7. I create a device mapper (crypt) over a disk partition and then copy data (bytes) from disk partition to mapper. The blkid output has two entries for the ...
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UUID fstab configuration in virtual machine ( VMware )
we have physical machines as HP or IBM blade machine and we set UUID in fstab on these physical machines
but in case we use VM ( virtual machine , )
is it necessary to defines UUID in fstab on ...
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Batch-scripting: Get network connection UUID
In short:
What I need is a way to find UUID of network connection "xyz" from a batch-file.
I'm trying to setup a script that will place a scheduled task on the current user. I intend to send this ...
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How to change vfat partition UUID?
How do I change the UUID of a vfat partition?
For ext2 / ext3 / ext4, this is done with a simple:
tune2fs -U <new-uuid> /dev/<partition>
Is there a similar command for vfat partitions?
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Virtual Machines and UUID changing
Where I work, we are attempting to implement a VM cloning solution for some of our machines. We have a piece of software that needs to be on the cloned image. When I clone the VM the software throws ...
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Creating UUID on Linux Command-Line
What's the latest solution to create a random UUID in up-to-date Linux/Ubuntu?
The answer here is rather out-dated.
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UUIDs: considerations for changing n characters of a version-4 to a word
36 character UUIDs are awesome. But my intuition is that in my personal, home-use, I do not need all the uniqueness that 36 characters provide. But I may not be thinking of all the situations in which ...
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How to get serial number or UUID from MTD device?
I have an embedded device with MTD device over NAND flash. Is it possible to get its serial number or UUID?
I thought there might be a solution similar to getting UUID of hard drive but I didn't find ...
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How can I fix "uuid/uuid.h - No such file" error in CentOS
I am running CentOS 7 (64 bit). I am trying to build a project and I am getting this error.
fatal error: uuid/uuid.h: No such file or directory
#include <uuid/uuid.h>
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Is UUID of a disk an attribute of the disk or system generated?
I am trying automate a task of syncing particular file ext on dozen of linux systems (not in same network) on a external HDD. So logically first part in the task would be to check if the disk is ...
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Windows 10 will not boot with source of clone attached
I cloned a windows 10 installation from a 1T HDD to a 500G SSD using clonezilla.
Everything is fine as long as I don't attached the HDD drive that I used as the source of the clone. Here is what I ...
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Trying to find the UUID of a USB flash drive using diskutil vs system_profiler
I am trying to get the Volume UUID of a USB flash drive using the command line on a Mac. I tried using:
system_profiler SPUSBDataType
And I get the Volume UUID of two out of the three USB flash ...
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How to recreate encrypted dm-crypt/LUKS partition with predefined UUID on Linux?
I have / and swap area of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (and Linux Mint 17.1 LTS) encrypted in dm-crypt/LUKS. / and swap area reside in /dev/mapper/UUID_1 and /dev/mapper/UUID_2. Is it possible to recreate the /...
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Does btrfs-convert change the disk's UUID?
I'm thinking of converting my / from ext4 to btrfs.
Will the UUID change?
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Change UUID under Linux?
I need to create and assign a new UUID to an ordinary disk partition under Linux.
What tools are available and how do I use them?
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Find UUID under Linux?
I need the UUID of a disk partition under Linux. The partition is mounted but does not show up under
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
as can happen when duplicate UUIDs exist, for example, following ...
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Why does Ubuntu mount the wrong partition as root?
I am messing around with a problem of Ubuntu mounting a backup of my root partition residing on a different disk as / instead of the real one. I think the problem has been triggered by a clash of ...
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How do I permanently reset the UUID of an LVM partition?
A (dd cloned) backup of my boot partition left me with duplicate UUIDs.
blkid shows:
/dev/sda1: UUID="32579810-0388-416d-bb49-7031ac2c2975" TYPE="ext4"
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/dev/mapper/raidgroup-osbackup: UUID="...
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Transferring Linux OS from one drive to another with different partitions
First of all, some related questions:
How to move from one drive to another that's a different size?
What utility can move my Windows boot partition over to another hard drive?
My situation is as ...
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Is there a way to get host Hyper-V UUID from linux gest?
I have a CentOS 6.4 runing on Hyper-V VM. If I export the VM to other Hyper-V server, the UUID keeps the same. Is there a way to avoid this, or use other identifyer to know that the host hardware have ...
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How to edit PostgreSQL tables with a uuid primary key using IntelliJ's database Table Editor?
I have hooked-up PyCharm with my PostgreSQL database. All of my tables have a uuid column as their primary key. When I attempt to edit a row's value, I get the following error:
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Mount by UUID or LABEL
In Linux it is possible to mount a device (disk) by UUID or label. I have used UUID for a while mainly because I was picked up a discussion on IRC that mounting by label was a really horrible idea.
I ...
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UUID and Drive Cloning
When cloning a drive (using dd), will the UUID's for each partition change, or are they hardware specific? or does cloning it preserve the UUID as well?
What happen if a system detected two devices ...
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How to rename /dev/sdax(partitions) in Linux
I made a partition like /part on my machine with some important data...
But I can't stand the name of it...
I want a clear solution to resolve it and change the name of it to for example /test...
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What is system uuid on windows and why cant it be easily changed
I was installing some software and it said that the locking criteria is the system UUID. Now I know what UUID stands for. I know they are unique and are 128 bits long. I know how to generate them from ...
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blkid not returning the correct UUID/label for drive
I have 7 drives in my server (running Debian Wheezy as dom0 for a Xen hypervisor): An 80GB system drive, 3 x 2TB drives, a 1TB drive and 2x 500GB drives.
The 2TB drives are all part of an mdadm RAID ...
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Why Linux /etc/fstab UUIDs are case sensitive?
I recently added a line for a USB memory stick to /etc/fstab, to be able to mount it automatically, using UUID to identify the device.
Before I already have several external ext4 drives that have ...
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how do I fix a wrong UUID in grub.cfg?
I run Debian Wheezy alone on my PC and I recently copied the root partition to another with rsync as I found that worked well (I also know about dd and ddrescue but they leave unusable space on the ...
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UUID in Mountain Lion
I am trying to find my external HDD UUID in Mountain Lion but diskutil info /dev/disk1s1 returns:
Najis-MacBook-Air:~ ****$ diskutil info disk1s1
Device Identifier: disk1s1
Device Node: ...
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How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X to a SPECIFIED value?
This is similar to the question asked here:
How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X 10.6?
Only difference is I want to change it to a specific value, not a random one. The hfs.util only ...
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