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#1 2009-09-02 15:33:48
- daneel971
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[SEMI-SOLVED; STILL CURIOUS] no more /dev/disk/by-uuid
I installed another Arch in a spare partition, reformatting sda2 and sda5 (swap). Since I use UUIDs in fstab, when I rebooted the previous installation in sda1 it failed to activate swap, since the UUID of that partition changed. Not a big deal: just update fstab and activate swap manually.
While doing this anyway I noticed that there was no more /dev/disk/by-uuid directory.
Is this normal or should I be concerned? Also, can someone explain how this directory is populated at boot time?
Thanks in advance for your help.
SOLUTION: a broken installation of util-linux-ng: for unknown (at least to me) reasons, blkid was missing. I reinstalled the package and restarted udev: it worked.
I'm still curious to know how come that i did boot my system without a /dev/disk/by-uuid directory, given the fact that both fstab and menu.lst use UUIDs.
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#2 2009-09-04 21:19:21
- djszapi
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Re: [SEMI-SOLVED; STILL CURIOUS] no more /dev/disk/by-uuid
Hello Daneel971!
What's the output of 'blkid' command ?
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