Not using a DE, I might not be much help, sorry. But you aroused my curiosity…
On Thu 07 May 2020 at 20:46:32 (-0400), Default User wrote: > blkid output: > > /dev/sda1: LABEL="/" UUID="1af49d67-02c1-4601-b020-ca70e78e6da8" > BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="cff3c8f8-01" > /dev/sda5: UUID="93082123-a386-41ce-8067-fafbf5892691" TYPE="swap" > PARTUUID="cff3c8f8-05" > /dev/sda6: LABEL="/home" UUID="561e0ea6-46ef-41bd-9a51-f840352d918c" > BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="cff3c8f8-06" I thought for a minute that you'd (mis)typed that in, but then realised from /dev/disk that those LABELs are real. Did you choose them, or were they chosen for you? > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. […] > UUID=1af49d67-02c1-4601-b020-ca70e78e6da8 / ext4 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 > # > UUID=561e0ea6-46ef-41bd-9a51-f840352d918c /home ext4 > defaults 0 2 > # > UUID=93082123-a386-41ce-8067-fafbf5892691 none swap > sw 0 0 > # > /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 > user,noauto 0 0 […] > Note 2: in the Edit Mount Options window for each partition on the > main ssd, the 'Identify As" field lists a UUID entry (ie, > UUID="93082123-a386-41ce-8067-fafbf5892691 for the swap partition). > But > for any partition or drive other than on the main ssd, the 'Identify > As" field lists either a device name entry (ie, /dev/sr0 for the dvd > drive), or a /dev/disk/by-id entry (ie, > usb-HP_v125w_8EIYHFB131ZYW5I4-0:0-part1, when an external usb device > is plugged in.) > > Therefore I wonder if this has something to do with entries in > /dev/disks/*, but that is just speculation. And since I know nothing > about /dev/disks/* and how it works, I am somewhat reluctant to do > surgery there without knowing what I am doing. Well, that seems logical enough. The 'Identify As" field corresponds with the name of the filesystem in your /etc/fstab file, just so long as the "UUID=" is part of the field's value, which you say it is. Using the /dev/disk/by-id entry instead for an external device may be designed to avoid the sort of problem shown by your sda2, which has no UUID. (I would have thought that …/by-path is the least likely to be absent or non-unique.) > /dev/disk/by-uuid: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 May 7 20:22 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 140 May 7 15:06 ../ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 7 15:06 > 1af49d67-02c1-4601-b020-ca70e78e6da8 -> ../../sda1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 7 15:06 > 561e0ea6-46ef-41bd-9a51-f840352d918c -> ../../sda6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 7 15:06 > 93082123-a386-41ce-8067-fafbf5892691 -> ../../sda5 […] > 3) A good /etc/fstab that doesn't change by itself when User Session > Defaults is turned on or off! As an emergency measure, you could chattr +i /etc/fstab to prevent anything changing it, while you investigate. You might even get some error messages occasionally, when some program tries to change it. Cheers, David.
