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Posted: **Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:11 am**

I wanted to copy my boot drive to a bigger drive so I used Easeus Disk Copy. The copy said it worked fine. I then unplugged the old drive and plugged in the new drive and it looked like it was booting (the fedora icon was about 3/4 full) then it said there was an error and to enter the root password to enter the recovery console. I did that and ran fsck and it said it was unable to resolve UUID=some long number. I thought that I was safe because I still have my original drive. I take out the new drive and put the old one back and try to boot but now the original drive has exactly the same error! This drive was working fine before I did the copy. Is there a way to fix this? I will re-install Amahi if I have to but I just spent days copying all my shared files over to my shares and I don't want to have to do this again if I don't have to. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Quaz

Posted: **Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:29 am**

What you need to do is:
- On boot, enter the root password when asked to.
- Remount / to be writable:

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mount -o remount,rw /

- Look for your boot partition:

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fdisk -l

It should be /dev/sda1, but can be something else. Find the partition that has a * in the 'boot' column.
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Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20a0c72d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2612    20980858+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2613      243201  1932531142+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2613        2855     1951866   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            2856      243201  1930579213+  83  Linux

- Find the UUID of that partition:

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ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep sda1

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[gb@hda ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-04 10:04 4245159c-83c1-4db5-a68e-6c1ffd589bfe -> ../../sda1

- Edit /etc/fstab (using nano, or vi), and change the UUID of the / partition to the UUID you just found above.
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UUID=4245159c-83c1-4db5-a68e-6c1ffd589bfe / ext4 defaults 1 1

- Reboot

Posted: **Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:03 pm**

Thanks! This worked.

Quaz

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