fstab

[Terence Simpson]

Ralph Alvy wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
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>>> I want total control over fstab,
>>> using traditional entries like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc., along with my
>>> own hard-coded mount points.
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>> You have it - /etc/fstab was automatically modified (once) to use UUIDs
>> for
>> mounting rather than /dev names, because the /dev names are changing.  If
>> it changes at any other time, it's because you made a change, or installed
>> something non-standard that does so.  Kubuntu _can_ change the file if you
>> use "System Settings > Advanced > System Administration > Disk &
>> Filesystems", but that's under your control.  I would suggest you not use
>> it, anyway, as I see it has trouble parsing fstab properly.
>>     
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> I seem to have solved these problems by removing all lines in fstab with
> device labels except my root and swap partitions, and then
> using /dev/sda... instead of /dev/hda... lines in fstab. I had been
> using /dev/hda... lines because the commented-out line above each label
> line referenced partitions that way. I never bothered to check my /dev
> folder to notice that Kubuntu was using /dev/sda... device names.
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That's why the switch to UUIDs happened, it's up to the kernel/udev/hal 
as to what the device nodes get called, but UUIDs are constant.