Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

> When I install a 2nd/3rd distrib on a HD, I have made it a practice
> to set up fstab so the existing distrib are mounted automatically.
> Repeated use leads to all functioning distrib to be crosslinked.
> But when a distrib must be reinstalled because something drasticly
> wrong happened, or whatever, access to that replacement distrib in
> all the older distrib is broken because the UUID of the partition
> is changed.

You could make a note of the UUID before the re-install then re-apply
it to the partition with
tune2fs -U <uuid> /dev/sdaX