Easier way to clone a disk

[tr0910]

The fact that you cannot right now change the UUID of an XFS drive is troubling.  If I should need to yank a drive and put it into another server due to some sort of disaster, I will have a few UUID challenges to overcome.

 

I created a new 6.2b23 boot key for testing, and it seems this limitation is removed.  (my servers are on 6.1.9)

 

root@Tower:~# xfs_admin -U generate /dev/sdd1
Clearing log and setting UUID
writing all SBs
new UUID = b8cacfbe-97c3-40fa-983d-b422c4c52edf

 

All is well in UUID land if you run with the latest beta...