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On Monday 07 July 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I decided to go with UUIDs in /etc/fstab. After a half-hour or so |
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> pfutzing around with these |
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> (how do you find the UUID of an unmounted partition when you're not |
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> even really sure |
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> what kind of filesystem it has), |
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blkid |
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part of e2fsprogs |
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> There's a file I never heard of or noticed before: /etc/blkid.tab, |
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> and a backup, that seem to |
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> override the UUIDs, putting us back in the world we were in before |
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> Labels and UUIDs. |
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It's just a cache, see 'man blkid' |
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You can safely delete it, or use 'blkid -c <filename>' to use a |
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different cache, or 'blkid -c /dev/null' to ignore it. |
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I suspect your troubles come down to mount using a blkid with data from |
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before your controller decided to go all postal on you |
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> 3) Can we just stop this madness somehow? |
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You could just use volume labels - a poor man's UUID scheme where you |
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get to invent your own unique names |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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