Re: ext3 file system

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:51:12 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote:
> One thing I noticed...in Ubuntu's fstab, sda2 is referred to as
> "/dev/sda2" while the Ubuntu partition is referenced by the UUID..I
> wonder if this is a problem ?

You said Ubuntu both times.  Which is Debian and which is Ubuntu?
It shouldn't be a problem, as long as the UUID is correct.  If the partition
has been re-formatted since /etc/fstab was created, the
UUID might have changed.  Verify that the UUIDs match.  The blkid
command will tell you what the actual current UUID for a device
is.  For example:

   blkid /dev/sda2

If blkid returns no output, try wipefs (from package util-linux) to
see if there are any residual file system signatures that may
be confusing udev/blkid.  But the first thing to try is manually
umounting the file system in Ubuntu before shutdown.

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