Re: [gentoo-user] drive configuration changes on reboot; blkid.tab defeats UUIDs

2008-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
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 > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] drive configuration changes on reboot; blkid.tab defeats UUIDs

2008-07-07 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: I had cause to reboot my gentoo box this morning, and it was an unexpected disaster. For some reason, my two PCI-X SATA controllers decided to switch places in the /dev/sd* lists. My /etc/fstab had explicit drive paths hard-coded, and they tried to mount stuff that didn't

[gentoo-user] drive configuration changes on reboot; blkid.tab defeats UUIDs

2008-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I had cause to reboot my gentoo box this morning, and it was an unexpected disaster. For some reason, my two PCI-X SATA controllers decided to switch places in the /dev/sd* lists. My /etc/fstab had explicit drive paths hard-coded, and they tried to mount stuff that didn't exist, and naturally faile