Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 18/05/16 22:02, deloptes wrote: >> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> >>> On 17/05/16 18:02, Felix Miata wrote: >>>> Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-05-17 16:41 (UTC+0100): >>>> >>>>> I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that I use >>>>> for experimenting with various distributions. A consequence is that >>>>> previous UUIDs have disappeared into the bit bucket but, during >>>>> booting of my main system a script somewhere is trying to use the swap >>>>> partition that used to exist on the second disk. >>>> >>>>> This is not a major problem, as the system boots after a 90 second >>>>> delay for a start job that is never going to start and a dependency >>>>> failure message is output, but I would like to find and fix the >>>>> problem. Can anyone offer a pointer to a likely source? >>>> >>>> That was happening here last summer: >>>> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936964 >>>> >>>> Maybe all that's needed to fix it is initrd rebuilding. >>>> >>>> Mounting by UUID is an optional default. Mounting life is simpler here, >>>> because I don't use UUID mounting on any of my hundreds of multiboot >>>> installations. Most of my mounts are by LABEL, strings I as a fallible >>>> human choose and can remember, according to usage, disk name and/or >>>> hostname. >>> >>> Thanks for the very useful pointers. I don't know who is the culprit, >>> but fstab has an entry for swap with a UUID that is not consistent with >>> the actual UUID for the swap partition. I'm going with your advice and >>> switch to using labels. >>> >>> Thanks again. >>> >>> Peter HB >> >> UUID is better flexible solution in many cases - why not updating fstab >> to have the correct uuid? > > Because I prefer an identifier that I can remember. :-)
Haha, that's fair enough. It took me about 1h to reverse the setup to paper, that I have done few years ago on one server with 12disks Not only uuid, but crypt and lvm on top. I finally draw a map with this. I suggest not relaying on memory anyway ;-) regards
