orangep
February 26th, 2009, 10:08 PM
The most recent upgrade of Debian Linux for 64-bit cpus destroyed my system and left it unbootable, so I was finally forced to really give Ubuntu a try.
I cleared a disk drive and installed the latest stable version of
64-bit desktop Ubuntu onto it.
Installation went well. No major hassles except this:
I have multiple disk drives, and cannot list them in /etc/fstab correctly. The old style of listing them by drive names like /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, etc. no longer works as the various disk drives come up with different identifiers with every reboot. It's like identifier roulette.
I see that the installation routine has created a new kind of identifier for the root disk drive. All of the boot disk's partitions are
identified with labels like
"UUID=ab3e8667-10cf-4c60-af7a-38a22a0ba3ee",
So how do I get such UUID numbers for the partitions on the other
disk drives?
TIA.
I cleared a disk drive and installed the latest stable version of
64-bit desktop Ubuntu onto it.
Installation went well. No major hassles except this:
I have multiple disk drives, and cannot list them in /etc/fstab correctly. The old style of listing them by drive names like /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, etc. no longer works as the various disk drives come up with different identifiers with every reboot. It's like identifier roulette.
I see that the installation routine has created a new kind of identifier for the root disk drive. All of the boot disk's partitions are
identified with labels like
"UUID=ab3e8667-10cf-4c60-af7a-38a22a0ba3ee",
So how do I get such UUID numbers for the partitions on the other
disk drives?
TIA.