On 2010-06-18 19:15 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. > an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the > rest of the line unchanged as /bkups ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 2 > > Next I rebooted the system, mounted /bkups (no problem) and entered the > command df -h. The ususal list of partitions were listed and /bkups > still appeared as the mount point for /dev/sda1. > > I take it that everything is working ok and if I were to reconnect the > sata drives in a different order the designation /dev/sda1 might change > to something else but mounting /bkups would always access the same > partition?
Yes, that is the point of using UUIDs in /etc/fstab. > I raise this question because I am having trouble installing linux-base > and linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64. The installation of linux-base asked to > change fstab entries to UUID identifiers and I told it to do so. Later > in the process the installion failed with the message: > > > Writing extended state information... > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... > Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector > size. > dosfslabel failed: 256 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1059, > <STDIN> line 10. > dpkg: error processing linux-base (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: > linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 depends on linux-base (>= 2.6.32-15); however: > Package linux-base is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > linux-base > linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 > > and, as the installation failed, fstab was unchanged. Since the > dosfslabel failed I thought to change the fstab file to use UUID's > before trying to reinstall linux-base. Seems like a good idea to me. It is probably only necessary to do this for the DOS partition, though. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4pw405j....@turtle.gmx.de
