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kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

New installation and fstab Entry

Recently I installed Arch in a new 320 GB hard disk with 3 primary + 6 Logical partitions . In the first attempt I tried /var with xfs and mounted another partition (also xfs) under  /var/abs and installation went ok. After reboot It failed to boot as fschk failed on this xfs partition even fixing the FS after chroot did not help and I gave up.

Arch was installed with the same number of partitions with ext4 FS but for the /boot (ext3). I mounted two partitions under /mnt . I noticed two things. /fstab has these two partitions entry  in the old way and not by UUID. Formatting the partitions changes the UUID. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=634149 also discuss this issue).
I have to manually edit the fstab after realising this change to get the arch up and working.

Does any one got similar experience? I wish to change the fstab with the old style (I already  keept one copy of fstab  with the old style ) I want to hear from the experienced users.

Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 1,158

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Re: New installation and fstab Entry

I prefer the readability of the old style, but the reliability of UUIDs, so I settled for a compromise. I use partition labels. As long as you remember to set the label whenever you reformat a partition, you'll have no problems.

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