[YLUG] fstab

[Patrick Dupre]

Thanks

> Hi,
>
> You can find the UUID of a volume using the vol_id command. For example,
> to find the UUID of /dev/sda1 on my system I do the following:
> $ sudo vol_id /dev/sda1
> ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
> ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
> ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
> ID_FS_UUID=0b3eb0fe-d708-4427-a0bb-cd3249e45070
> ID_FS_UUID_ENC=0b3eb0fe-d708-4427-a0bb-cd3249e45070
> ID_FS_LABEL=
> ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=
> ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=
>
> So I can see the UUID I need to use in /etc/fstab is
> "0b3eb0fe-d708-4427-a0bb-cd3249e45070". Note that for other filesystems
> this number may be quite different, for example NTFS drives will look
> more like:
> ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
> ID_FS_TYPE=ntfs
> ID_FS_VERSION=3.1
> ID_FS_UUID=BE507CCB507C8BC1
> ID_FS_UUID_ENC=BE507CCB507C8BC1
> ID_FS_LABEL=
> ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=
> ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=
>
> Regards,
>
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:49 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> With fedora 10, my /etc/fstab file is changed to a new one sometime
>> and I do not have the control.
>> Typically, I setup:
>> /dev/sda4	/	ext3	defaults	1 1
>>
>> and it becomes:
>>
>> UUID=6fd6f636-bc27-4caf-a9b4-f36fb78f281b /	ext3	defaults	1
>> 1
>>
>> It may be due because I am using lvm.
>>
>> How can I generate a new /etc/fstab with the UUID= from a /dev/sdax ?
>> It may also be related to initrd because it look like that initrd
>> contains also the te UUID for swap and /
>>
>> Thank
>>
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  Patrick DUPRÉ                      |   |
  Department of Chemistry            |   |    Phone: (44)-(0)-1904-434384
  The University of York             |   |    Fax:   (44)-(0)-1904-432516
  Heslington                         |   |
  York YO10 5DD  United Kingdom      |   |    email: pd520 at york.ac.uk
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