[mythtv-users] Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 => 8.04

[jedi]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:45:42AM -0700, finlay wrote:
> Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > finlay wrote:
> >   
> >> Joacim J wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have read about Josh White's problem with Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 => 8.04.
> >>> However, is there anyone that have done a *successful* upgrade with 
> >>> functional MythTV from Ubuntu's repository?
> >>>       
> >> I did a FE/BE upgrade (Ubuntu 704->710 with myth on top) a couple of 
> >> days ago. I had a problem with fstab because I had a pata drive for my 
> >> system disk that got renamed to /dev/sda from /dev/hda and I used the 
> >> partition names instead of labels for mounting.
> >>     
> > Don't use names or labels.  UUIDs are used by default in Ubuntu.  You should
> > stick to these.
> > They are used for this exact reason of upgrades risking breaking things.
> >   
> How does one find out what the UUID of a parition is?

  apropos UUID

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