[mythtv-users] Ubuntu Edgy -> Feisty upgrade report

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 07:35 +0100, David Campbell wrote:
> 
> Well I wasn't using labels in fstab so I got dropped to a recovery 
> prompt on boot.  That is biting me *in* the ass.

I'm not referring to labels in fstab but rather UUIDs.  UUIDs are the
guaranteed way to find a disk device no matter where in your system
architecture it is and be able to address it in an architecture
independent way.  If when manually managing your /etc/fstab you'd used
UUIDs you wouldn't have had this problem.

> I find fdisk -l easer to use than vol_id volname and the other tools.

No tools necessary.  Just use the UUID of the disk/partition.  To get
that:

$ uuidgen /dev/sda1
5370e7ad-4427-4a83-949c-e65775cb0e76

b.

-- 
My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell
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