Mount/remount partitions

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I recently attempted to backup my / (sda3) partition to an unused/unmounted (sda6) partition using clonezilla…

When I rebooted, clonezilla had mounted sda6 as /, and unmounted my sda3 partition.

What is the easiest way to switch these back?

Thanks,

Jim

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Hi Jim007

When you cloned sda3 to sda6, you also cloned the UUID of the first partition to the second thus getting a boot into sda6 - grub sees both partitions as being the same.

What you can do to fix this is to boot into a live USB (or CD) and use GParted to change sda6’s UUID. Right click on sda6 and select New UUID. Reboot and you’ll be back using sda3 once again.

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The terminal command

sudo blkid

will show the uuid in use.

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Thanks! Can I say that was "almost" too easy?

Jim

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Good to hear that. The easier, the better.

Michael