[Gllug] Linux Mint fstab bemusement - never seen anything like this before, how do I get nfs working?

[M.Blackmore]

This is the fstab that Mint Linux installed - I've never seen the like,
and simply grafting on my "usual" nfs links doesn't work.

What are the long strings of UUID letters - something generated as a
unique identifier by the format or partitioner? And is this identifier
being used to mark the partition locations in human readable /media/sda6
or /home manner of writing? 

So to make the nfs partitions work do I need to append these identifiers
to my usual couple of nfs share lines instead of just saying what I
normally say?

Any other linux distributions do this sort of thing, whatever it is
doing here??

Sorry, lines wrap..

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda5 this is the root partition
UUID=1d57df82-b9ac-4b33-92b7-be470ccb1b7d / ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=EC87-8FE3  /media/sda1     vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0
1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=90cf0459-d9f4-466f-aef2-f179db3ec4dd /media/sda6     ext3
defaults        0       2
# /dev/sda7
#UUID=e7ababf1-ca49-46e0-a777-48a7f7cb4c4f /media/sda7 ext3  defaults
0       2
# This is the home partition on sda8
UUID=e7ababf1-ca49-46e0-a777-48a7f7cb4c4f /home ext3 defaults        0
2
# /dev/sda2
UUID=45a229b5-8b0f-4936-8859-03607cb42f24 none            swap    sw
0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/scd1       /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec 0       0

# My usual nfs import lines fail miserably
192.168.0.x:/exports/malcolm    /home/malcolm/Documents nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.0.x:/exports    /home/malcolm/imports   nfs defaults 0 0

This is the output of mount -a (the destination directories on the latop
have been created! And mount is working fine on another machine):

[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
192.168.0.1:/exports/malcolm,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
192.168.0.1:/exports,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so



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