Crosscheck UUID's

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux i-ubux at synass.net
Sat Apr 12 12:13:07 UTC 2008


Hi Thilo
Thanks for your feedback and pointing to the wrong UUID of sda8 !

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 07:45 +0200, Thilo Six wrote:
> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote the following on 12.04.2008 01:37
> 
> > sda8 UUID=47F7-9B3D 
> 
> That looks like an ntfs/vfat partition

Correct ! ;-)


> >         UUID="42e739b5-a525-43b0-a897-21378f3a94b9 none swap sw 0 0
> 
> swap will obviously not work on such a partition. Apart from that a UUID
> starting with " is at least special.

Yes, I noticed some slowdown already !! ;-))


> check and correct your fstab entries according to the real data given by your hardware.

I deleted the 8.04 Beta installation just before writing my post and 
noticed the shifting of the sda numbers !!! ;-D

That too was a reason to ask the mailing list how to control and
maintain the correctness of the systems vital settings, i.e.
UUID's !! ;-)


> /boot/grub/menu.lst can then be updated with:
> /usr/sbin/update-grub

Yes and "Danke schoen" !
Cheers and "Schoenes Wochenende", 
svobi





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