On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:02:54 -0400
Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:51:12 -0400 (EDT), Frank wrote:
> >> One thing I noticed...in Ubuntu's fstab, sda2 is referred to as
> >> "/dev/sda2" while the Ubuntu partition is referenced by the UUID..I
> >> wonder if this is a problem ?
> >
> > You said Ubuntu both times.  Which is Debian and which is Ubuntu?
> > It shouldn't be a problem, as long as the UUID is correct.  If the partition
> > has been re-formatted since /etc/fstab was created, the
> > UUID might have changed.  Verify that the UUIDs match.  The blkid
> > command will tell you what the actual current UUID for a device
> > is.  For example:
> >
> >   blkid /dev/sda2
> >
> > If blkid returns no output, try wipefs (from package util-linux) to
> > see if there are any residual file system signatures that may
> > be confusing udev/blkid.  But the first thing to try is manually
> > umounting the file system in Ubuntu before shutdown.
> 
> Skip the blkid cache with
> blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sda2
> 
> Is sda3 ext3 or ext4?

  Both sda3 and sda2 are ext3 formatted.
   
  Thanks


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