Change UUID or serial number of a EXT4, swap, VFAT, FAT16 or FAT32 partition
Is it an EXT4 partition?
tune2fs -U "<UUID>" /dev/sdXY
Is it a swap partition?
If you have not used it, first do: mkswap /dev/sdXY swaplabel -U "<UUID>" /dev/sdXY
Is it a VFAT, FAT16 or FAT32 partition?
If you do not have mlabel, install it by: apt install mtools A FAT partition has a serial number in a format like XXXX-YYYY, in the command below omit the - from the serial number. mlabel -N XXXXYYYY -i /dev/sdXY ::
Check UUID or serial number of a partition
blkid or blkid /dev/sdXY
Sources
https://www.tecmint.com/change-uuid-of-partition-in-linux/ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/261236/change-fat16-partition-uuid
This is a personal note. Last updated: 2021-01-05 22:02:54.