Bug 199707

Summary: Preserve UUID when recreating file systems
Product: [Applications] partitionmanager Reporter: Volker Lanz <vl>
Component: generalAssignee: Volker Lanz <vl>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
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Description Volker Lanz 2009-07-10 20:13:47 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

When recreating a file system on an existing partition, the UUID should be preserved if possible.
Comment 1 Volker Lanz 2009-08-02 21:27:30 UTC 
This is trivial, but not as trivial as it might seem, because the FileSystem implementations right now _create_ UUIDs in their respective updateUUID() methods.

First step would be to separate generation of new UUIDs and writing them to disk. The updateUUID() methods should just write the contents of the m_UUID prop and nothing else.

Copying the UUID from the old to the new file system should probably be done when creating the copy, not in some op or job implementation; this has the advantage of showing the (old and new) correct UUID in the preview before applying.