How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X 10.6?
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Does anyone know how to change the UUID of a Volume? The background for this question is that I have a duplicate UUID issue: I have with a UUID of XYZ. I have with a UUID of XYZ (same UUID! I bet that's because OldMacHD USED to be part of this mirror). I got these UUIDs via: I’d like to change the …
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diskutil info /dev/thatdisknumber | grep UUID
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the syntax for hfs.util appears to just be the devicename, not the path including /dev/ i.e. make sure to unmount the drive before the hfs.util -s and mount afterwards. use the "raw" device i.e. rdisk1s2 instead of disk1s2 diskutil info will not sho…
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