fstab

[Ralph Alvy]

Terence Simpson wrote:

> Ralph Alvy wrote:
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>> I want total control over fstab,
>>>> using traditional entries like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, etc., along with
>>>> my own hard-coded mount points.
>>>>       
>>> 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.
>>>     
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 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.

Well, now I notice that when I reboot, the device names switch back from
hda... to sda... again. Then if I edit fstab, to accomodate this, the next
boot it switches back to hda... names again. I guess I should have kept
those UUIDs. I don't experience this with any other linux distro (Fedora
Core, Arch, Slackware, for instance), and I use hal and udev in all of
them. I'll have to read up on UUIDs and see how to generate them anew and
then use them in fstab.