Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

[PMA <PeterArmstrong@aya.yale.edu>]

I have similar behaviour from a third disk, external USB,
that gets auto-mounted on /media.  Its partitions aren't
named, and their order is messed up, so I just umount
them all and call a little script that remounts them else-
where on orderly named directories.

Slicky Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:21:19 +0000
> Brian<ad44@cityscape.co.uk>  wrote:
>
> > On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 15:28:19 -0500, PMA wrote:
> >
> > > So my question: When I rebooting, can I safely assume
> > > that, because fstab is using UUIDs and not "/dev/..."(s),
> > > the system won't get confused?
> >
> > One possible gotcha. When GRUB was installed where was it installed
> > to? If it's to /dev/sda you may have a little remedial work to do!
> > This caught me out a couple of times when I forgot to remove the USB
> > stick at that stage of the install.
>
> I didn't run into that. The installer correctly identified the root
> partition, MBR etc. I only was burned by the fact it listed /dev/sdb1
> as a cdrom device in fstab, but /dev/sdb1 was basically behaving like
> one. So when a thumb was plugged in after the install had completed, it
> would fail to auto mount on my desktop as expected. Suppose a udev rule
> was confused. Mounting the device to a mount point by hand worked fine.