Strange /etc/fstab entries

[Joel Goguen]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:27 -0400, stan wrote:
> I just installed a new 7.10 install, and I looked in /etc/fstab.
> 
> The entries in thier are juststrange. They have a UID clause, with what
> looks like an encryption key or something for the user.
> 
> What's the deal with this?
> 
> -- 
> I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. 
> I am the manager of all of Customer Service."
> 
Actually, it's quite likely they're perfectly normal UUID entries.  The
UUID is a hex string separated by dashes (-).  An example of a UUID
partition ID is b5fc92d4-a0f4-44a2-b23d-a258b0289ffe.  A fstab entry
using UUID might look like this (all on one line):

UUID=b5fc92d4-a0f4-44a2-b23d-a258b0289ffe     /home     reiserfs
defaults,errors=remount-ro     0     1

Ubuntu now uses UUID for mounts, which in most cases improves stability,
especially when adding drives to an existing system.

-- 
Joel Goguen
http://jgoguen.net/
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.  -- P. Medawar
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