Re: ext3 file system

[Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:39:17 -0400 (EDT)
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.  
  
  No, what I said was in the fstab on the Ubuntu partition, sda2
(Squeeze) is referred to as /dev/sda2, while that same fstab refers to
the Ubuntu partition (sda3) by it's UUID

> 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.  

  I have already done that.

> be confusing udev/blkid.  But the first thing to try is manually
> umounting the file system in Ubuntu before shutdown.


  That's next.

  Thanks for your help so far.

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-- Frank --