Rich, Here is the output of "mount -fav", fstab and blkid. I use BTRFS so things are probably a bit different than yours, but shoud be close. The fstab was generated during install, so I am not overly familiar with the details. Hope it helps.
jason@R9 ~/Downloads> mount -fav /Storage : already mounted /boot/efi : already mounted / : ignored /root : already mounted /srv : already mounted /var/cache : already mounted /var/log : already mounted /var/tmp : already mounted swap : ignored /tmp : already mounted /home : already mounted jason@R9 ~/Downloads> cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may # be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if # disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> UUID=8db03011-0352-4e14-aa49-1c4748d63dee /Storage ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0 UUID=23FA-8670 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 2 UUID=162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a / btrfs subvol=/@,defaults,noatime,space_cache,noautodefrag,compress=zstd,discard=async,ssd 0 0 #Modified_by_g aruda-hotfixes(1) #UUID=162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a /home btrfs subvol=/@home,defaults,noatime,space_cache,autodefrag,compress=zstd,discard=async,ssd 0 0 UUID=162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a /root btrfs subvol=/@root,defaults,noatime,space_cache,noautodefrag,compress=zstd,discard=async,ssd 0 0 #Modif ied_by_garuda-hotfixes(1) UUID=162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a /srv btrfs subvol=/@srv,defaults,noatime,space_cache,noautodefrag,compress=zstd,discard=async,ssd 0 0 #Modifie d_by_garuda-hotfixes(1) UUID=162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a /var/cache btrfs subvol=/@cache,defaults,noatime,space_cache,noautodefrag,compress=zstd,discard=async,ssd 0 0 #Modified_by_garuda-hotfixes(1) UUID=162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a /var/log btrfs subvol=/@log,defaults,noatime,space_cache,noautodefrag,compress=zstd,discard=async,ssd 0 0 #Mod ified_by_garuda-hotfixes(1) UUID=162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a /var/tmp btrfs subvol=/@tmp,defaults,noatime,space_cache,noautodefrag,compress=zstd,discard=async,ssd 0 0 #Mod ified_by_garuda-hotfixes(1) UUID=c39db78a-c5ba-40e7-aef0-7fe2f9943ed2 swap swap defaults,noatime 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 UUID=bd516db8-6c04-450b-8551-fd28e0057d95 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0 jason@R9 ~/Downloads> sudo blkid [sudo] password for jason: /dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL="NewHome" UUID="bd516db8-6c04-450b-8551-fd28e0057d95" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="39266518-ce58-964e-ba28-2de527dab1a3 " /dev/sdb2: UUID="162d0d1b-ed28-46d4-8cfe-d5df8dc4d57a" UUID_SUB="c4c41ec1-e372-4fe0-af79-eb748eda0ae1" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="btrfs" PARTLABEL="root" P ARTUUID="64da607a-dbcc-5547-a917-a1a770c4f04f" /dev/sdb3: LABEL="swap" UUID="c39db78a-c5ba-40e7-aef0-7fe2f9943ed2" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="2040c499-7cd5-cd45-b5f1-bd6e77cc60c1" /dev/sdb1: LABEL_FATBOOT="NO_LABEL" LABEL="NO_LABEL" UUID="23FA-8670" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="13ee3c98-34ee-0845-bef9-50af8bbf686c" /dev/sda2: LABEL="Storage" UUID="8db03011-0352-4e14-aa49-1c4748d63dee" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="de64fc8b-b9b7-2d44-a142-c33799458e63" /dev/sda1: LABEL="OLDHome" UUID="a0a32688-ae5e-411e-b935-8e38df9b0af7" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="eb5fde7e-cae2-9547-9f86-ead18e5b19c6" /dev/zram0: LABEL="zram0" UUID="6b41a6c1-7aba-4ba8-bf2f-a31f86d90560" TYPE="swap" l On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 1:40 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, Randy Bush wrote: > > > to be honest, i am not familiar with this PARTUUID stuff. my fstabs > > are all UUID= > > That's why I asked what to use. But, removing the PART string left / and > swap ignored and 'mount -fav' now says it cannot find the UUID. > > These are all partition UUIDs from blkid, not disk UUIDs. > > Rich >