UUID anomaly

R Kimber richardkimber at btinternet.com
Fri Jul 9 17:38:54 UTC 2010


On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 18:43:52 +0300
Marius Gedminas wrote:

>   # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique
> identifier
> 
> /etc/fstab is generated once, when you first install Ubuntu.  In some
> older version (the one you installed) vol_id must've been the right
> command to use.

Thanks.  I didn't realise that. It's true that I've been doing updates
rather than installs.  This makes me wonder what else might have got out of
date.

- Richard.
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