disk uuid changes at boot-time?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 12:00 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> >> # /dev/sda1
> >> UUID=75b96c6a-8f27-486e-8abe-db0883d783e3 /               reiserfs defaults
> >> 0       1
> >> # /dev/sda10
> >> UUID=fc6b2a31-1b9c-4aad-ba3a-5e558d05e7d7 /backup/vari     reiserfs defaults
> >> # /dev/sdc3
> >> UUID=ab00529c-6301-4c08-92b7-4cabf28780bc /backup/sede/vari    reiserfs
> >> defaults        0       2
> 
> Kibitzing on this thread.
> Are items mounted in the order that they appear in fstab? or the order
> they are found?
> 
> I wonder if sometimes the deeper nested mounts are mounted before the
> higher items, so one is masking the other - thus causing confusion....

When you do a mount -a to mount all the partitions in fstab, the program
does a topological sort on the entries and creates the mount dependency
graph and mounts everything in the correct order.  The order in fstab is
irrelevant.
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