Test from Laptop TB

[Karl Larsen]

Thorny wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:18:52 -0600, Karl F. Larsen posted:
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>> Thorny wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:07:33 -0600, Karl Larsen posted:
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>>>> 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.....
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>>> 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.
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>>     I have not done any tests yet.
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> I don't understand Karl, if you haven't tested, how can you make the
> statement, "...the UUID did not work for some reason"?
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> Oh well, there will probably more information in your next post on this
> topic, at this point, I don't understand what you might be seeing and I
> don't have a clue what TBird has to do with it.
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    Well did run a test. Using the UUID that didn't work on this laptop 
I am now writing this, I rebooted to a Jaunty live-CD and with that I 
used $sudo mount -t ext3 UUIDxxx.. /mnt and it gave no errors and I 
found /dev/sda6 mounted at /mnt! So I conclude there is something wrong 
with my file. I will continue to look. It is certain that blkid did give 
me the proper UUID numbers.


Karl