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    Having trouble with fstab file

    Hello I'm a noob linux user and am currently trying to learn through various books & tutorials. Problem I'm having is in a tutorial and forums search everyones fstab comes out nice and clean

    for me after running $ less /etc/fstab i get the following:

    Code:
    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
    # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
    # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
    #
    # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
    proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
    # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
    UUID=c1f74c8a-b4d3-4a04-93fd-bc2c96475b02 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
    # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
    UUID=212582e5-fabb-416c-b803-7868fe45ce05 none            swap    sw              0       0
    /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
    fstab (END)
    Do I have to read it like this everytime I want to check my fstab? or is the a way to align and also I can't tell if i'm getting errors here or not. Thanks in advance!

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    Re: Having trouble with fstab file

    Welcome to the forums.

    You can also just list it:

    sudo cat /etc/fstab

    Or you can open it

    gedit /etc/fstab

    Or open for editing

    gksu gedit /etc/fstab

    If editing you may want to backup first.

    sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup

    And if you have edited it and want to make sure it is ok before rebooting.

    sudo mount -a

    If it just returns then it is good, otherwise it will report errors.
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    Re: Having trouble with fstab file

    Thanks for fast reply, I'm gonna go ahead and edit it, the huge UUID numbers I think that were throwing me off because the tutorials and other's posts fstab were showing up as dev/sda1

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    Re: Having trouble with fstab file

    That must be old info.

    UUIDs are used now as they change less or rarely. Where just installing another drive or having BIOS load a flash drive before the hard drive can change the drive numbering and make sda1 become sdb1 and booting fails.
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    Re: Having trouble with fstab file

    Ahh yeah I just researched that. Thanks again for all the info!

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