On Monday 07 July 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I decided to go with UUIDs in /etc/fstab. After a half-hour or so > pfutzing around with these > (how do you find the UUID of an unmounted partition when you're not > even really sure > what kind of filesystem it has),
blkid part of e2fsprogs > There's a file I never heard of or noticed before: /etc/blkid.tab, > and a backup, that seem to > override the UUIDs, putting us back in the world we were in before > Labels and UUIDs. It's just a cache, see 'man blkid' You can safely delete it, or use 'blkid -c <filename>' to use a different cache, or 'blkid -c /dev/null' to ignore it. I suspect your troubles come down to mount using a blkid with data from before your controller decided to go all postal on you > 3) Can we just stop this madness somehow? You could just use volume labels - a poor man's UUID scheme where you get to invent your own unique names -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
