use UUID in fstab

Cornholio · 2009-08-27 12:22:49

Hi, I recently reinstalled arch, and I noticed that UUID is used by deault in grub's menu.lst., so why it isn't used by default in fstab too?
I have 2 HDs, they can be seen as sda or sdb, and I need to use UUID in fstab..
using uuid in grub and not in fstab makes no sense to me...

E5o · 2009-08-27 17:13:15

Greetings..

Are you asking where to find the UUIDs of your HDs, og are you asking why it isn't used by default?

Cheers

E5o

fukawi2 · 2009-08-27 22:56:49

Part of the installation process is to review fstab... If it's wrong, then it's up to the user to fix it.

deej · 2009-08-28 05:21:31

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

will give you the uuids of your partitions

As to why thew installation process doesn't use uuids for fstab,
but does for menu.lst... I don't know.

Deej

Cornholio · 2009-08-28 11:10:23

fukawi2 wrote:

Part of the installation process is to review fstab... If it's wrong, then it's up to the user to fix it.

yeah, but menu.lst uses UUID in the default install, that is useless if fstab does not use it...

fukawi2 · 2009-08-28 11:24:32

File a bug report / feature request if you think it should be different.

(Once the bug tracker is back up and running)

kgas · 2009-08-28 12:42:58

The previous release of Arch image used UUID in fstab. There are advantages and also disadvantages. Formating a disk (for eg external disk connected) will cause its UUID gets changed and requires manual updation to fstab. For menu.lst UUID is opt obiviously imo. Label can also be used. I tried all these and being in arch it is users choice

Last edited by kgas (2009-08-28 12:44:02)

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use UUID in fstab

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