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Hi [member=7644]DeepThought[/member]

I looked into MovingLinuxPartition.

• Step 1: Booting through Rescue CD

I was already on grub-repair

• Step 2: Create new partition

Asked gparted to help.

• Step 3: Clone Ubuntu partition to new location

Same as above

• Step 4: Generate and update UUID

Oups.

I did the copy with Gparted, and then I did lsblk to check where we were.

Code:

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM    SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
fd0      2:0    1      4K  0 disk
loop0    7:0    0  642.9M  1 loop /rofs
sda      8:0    0   55.9G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0   34.5G  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0      1K  0 part
├─sda5   8:5    0   19.4G  0 part
└─sda6   8:6    0      2G  0 part
sr0     11:0    1    721M  0 rom  /cdrom
zram0  252:0    0 1005.9M  0 disk [SWAP]

WHERE
sda1 IS THE COPY
sda5 IS ORIGINAL
sda6 IS SWAP

HERE IS A GRAB OF GPARTED
https://tinyurl.com/yxdsoom2

You can see I flagged sda1 as boot.
As recommanded on the suggested page I checked UUID and then tried to assign a new UUID on my cloned partition.
blkid said this about the partitions:

Code:

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="b2d85e0f-559b-4350-9ec8-83860ed5740a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7ec4ada2-01"
/dev/sda5: UUID="b2d85e0f-559b-4350-9ec8-83860ed5740a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7ec4ada2-05"
/dev/sr0: UUID="2017-10-29-01-25-15-00" LABEL="Boot-Repair-Disk 32bit" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="7e809be6" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="55636d3c-1197-4022-a365-1409b12eb49b" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="7ec4ada2-06"
/dev/zram0: UUID="4701e26f-c6d4-4670-ac10-534417e5d723" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="USB00" UUID="53A9-130E" TYPE="vfat"

I did a fsck  and then asked a random UUID from tune2fs like so:

Code:

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo fsck.ext4 /dev/sda1
e2fsck 1.43.5 (04-Aug-2017)
/dev/sda1: clean, 278663/2252160 files, 3384458/9036024 blocks
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo tune2fs -U random /dev/sda1
tune2fs 1.43.5 (04-Aug-2017)
Setting UUID on a checksummed filesystem could take some time.
Proceed anyway (or wait 5 seconds) ? (y,N) <proceeding>

After 30 minutes... Why this?  How long is long?

Code:

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="b2d85e0f-559b-4350-9ec8-83860ed5740a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7ec4ada2-01"
/dev/sda5: UUID="b2d85e0f-559b-4350-9ec8-83860ed5740a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7ec4ada2-05"
/dev/sr0: UUID="2017-10-29-01-25-15-00" LABEL="Boot-Repair-Disk 32bit" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="7e809be6" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="55636d3c-1197-4022-a365-1409b12eb49b" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="7ec4ada2-06"
/dev/zram0: UUID="4701e26f-c6d4-4670-ac10-534417e5d723" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="USB00" UUID="53A9-130E" TYPE="vfat"
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$

:'(