GNOME Partition Editor - evolved into problem with chmod

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:

> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
>> The Debian fstab entry (I edited the fstab file, to incorporate the
>> partition, from the Debian side) is
>> "
>> /dev/hdc8       /data           ext3    defaults        0       0
>> "
>
> Ubuntu fstab uses UUID, this way.
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=8ee9b4b5-98f9-4849-93bf-cec44029ae8e /public	ext3 defaults  0 0
>
> The UUID is from the "vol_id -u /dev/sda1" command
>

"Ah, there's the rub" (From Hamlet, I believe).

As Ubuntu apparently uses the UUID instead of the device path, in the 
fstab, in the filesystem column, how do I get the UUID, to get a 
partition mounted?

I have now managed to get the particular (hdc8) partition mounted, and 
writable, and written to, in Debian, but I now do not know how to get 
the file mounted in Ubuntu.

If I try to get the UUID for the partition, by using the "vol_id -u" 
command, it returns "error opening device", I assume, because the device 
is not mounted.

So, as I cannot mount the device, without the UUID, how do I get the 
UUID, if the device is not mounted?

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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