Test from Laptop TB

[Thorny]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:07:33 -0600, Karl Larsen posted:

> Hi Thorny, I used blkid but the UUID did not work for some reason. It was
> odd because the thing it generated for /dev/sda6 had UUID"xxxxxxxxx" like
> that and I removed the " when I put it in fstab. Could be that is wrong,
> but none of the others have " in them.....
> 

Aw gee Karl, now you are top posting. How can we expect the new members to
follow list standards when regulars set a poor example?

You are correct, you don't need the quotes when you use it in fstab.

Just to clarify, the blkid command doesn't generate the UUID, it just
reads it. It could also be read from the blkid table at /etc/blkid.tab

"...the UUID did not work for some reason", isn't much information. Does
that mean your ~home didn't get mounted when you tried that UUID in
fstab? Was there some error message? Can you mount the partition manually
using that UUID, if you try that in a terminal, and it fails to mount, it
should drop some useful error message. Remember, we can't see over your
shoulder, you have to describe what is happening for us to understand.

You could show us the two lines from your fstab, one using device node
(which, presumably, works correctly and mounts your ~home and the one
you tried with UUID and we could see if there were any errors in your
method.