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Re: ext3 file system



On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> 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.

Skip the blkid cache with
blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sda2

Is sda3 ext3 or ext4?


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