Please ignore my previous email. I think it cross paths. You have already used lsblk -f and the UUID is not showing for the /home mount point.
On Mon, 22 Sept 2025 at 12:40, James Dutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sept 2025 at 20:00, Henrik Morsing via GLLUG > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm a bit puzzled by Linux' (Debian) reluctance to assign a UUID to /home. > > I even re-installed Debian with a smaller /home and I have tried all the > > known tools for assigning a UUID to /home. Nothing works and half the time > > my laptop won't boot because Linux switches the two disk assignments around > > (another Linux "feature"). > > > > It's odd. Setting a UUID is silently ignored and blkid also ignores the > > device. I tried deleting and recreating the filesystem but that didn't make > > any difference. > > Does the device appear in /dev/disk/by-uuid ? > That is normally where I look to discover the uuid of a device. > There is also "lsblk -f". It displays block device name, uuid and mount point. -- GLLUG mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
