Ubuntu Notes

• Feisty Preview Archive for Mozilla Thunderbird: Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://gnomefreak.youmortals.com/mozilla-testing feisty main
deb-src http://gnomefreak.youmortals.com/mozilla-testing feisty main

• How to find UUID of swap and whether any swap is being used:

fdisk -l
vol_id /dev/xxxx #(xxxx from above)
free -m #shows swap total in MB

• How to find UUID of boot root partition:

dumpe2fs -h /dev/xxxx|grep UUID # Shows current even if newly changed
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid # CAUTION will not reflect changes until after reboot (see below)

• How to change UUID of boot root partition:

tune2fs -U random /dev/xxxx 

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