I've searched with Google but despite headings that imply how to find the UUID of a specific device, the page contents do not really tell me how to do this.
In /etc/fstab the entry for my external backup disk is UUID=436bc83a-1d2b-4c58-b3a9-5dbe8efc4112 /media/hd0 ext3 defaults 0 0 The past couple of mornings I see a mail message that the dirvish backup could not unmount the drive. When I tried from the command line this morning the attempt failed because the UUID did not match what the kernel saw. Turning off the drive, and back on about a hour later allowed me to umount the drive. How do I determine the UUID for devices such as this external drive? I've tried 'vol_id', but 'vol_id -u /media/hd0' responds that it's an unknown or unique media type and I see the same response if I use --uuid as the option to vol_id. A clue stick is needed. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
