[mythtv-users] Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 => 8.04

[John Finlay]

Mario Limonciello wrote:
> finlay wrote:
>   
>> Mario Limonciello wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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?
>>     
> vol_id /dev/sdXY
>   
Thanks to all who sent me this info - I used blkid to print out all the 
uuids. I had my BE MB (never buy ECS) die yesterday and moving the disks 
over to another system was painless because of the uuids in fstab.

John