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Because it's the same device as before. I only have one name for it.

Just call it device2?

That makes it impossible to recover my original device.

and?

You don't need to reuse the original device name, just append a number to it. Think of it as device incarnation 2.

But it's not the same device, in removing your old operating system you've removed the device keys keybase uses for encryption.