[wplug] Cloned disk question

[Eric Cooper]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:45:31PM -0400, Rob Lines wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Patrick Weber <paw160 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have a question regarding cloning a linux installation.
> >
> > I managed to clone my disk and get it booting in the new system, however I
> > noticed that the ethernet port names are all different.
> >
> > The original system had eth0 - eth4.  The new system has eth5-eth9.  I'm
> > sure that some configuration file must be keeping track of the hardware
> > address and the device name.
> >
> > How do I 'reset' this labeling?
> 
> Give a look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
> 
> There shoudl be an ifcfg-ethX for each of the interfaces.  See if they
> have MAC addesses listed in them and after killing the ones from the
> old hardware you can rename the files to the order you want them in.

If you're running Debian or one its derivatives, you need to remove
this file:
    /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules 
which "remembers" the mapping of MAC address to interface name.

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