add an HD

[vinnywright]

so I was wandering if I add another HD (IDE) to my box will it messup my UUID's or not ?

I'm going to do it eneyway but was looking for some input to what I can expect as far as having to rework the UUID's ore watnot

VINNY

[dibl]

Re: add an HD

The new drive itself won't get a UUID until you partition it, but the new partition(s) will be assigned a new UUID(s). You can find it with

sudo blkid

and set it up in /etc/fstab.

[vinnywright]

Re: add an HD

The new drive itself won't get a UUID until you partition it, but the new partition(s) will be assigned a new UUID(s). You can find it with

sudo blkid

and set it up in /etc/fstab.

thanks dibl

I just thrugh it in my test box (allso runing Karmic) and it wint just fine it was allreadey partitiond as NTFS as it came from a windows box but was picked up and avalabel to browse in dolphin.

I repartitiond and formated as ext3 and will insert to my mane box tomarow ............it's a 80 Gig WD IDE HD I plan to have for riping my cd colection to

thanks agin for the input 8)

VINNY