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
