Hi On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 07:57:23PM +0100, Henrik Morsing via GLLUG wrote: > > Good eevening, > > I'm a bit puzzled by Linux' (Debian) reluctance to assign a UUID to /home. I > even re-installed Debian with a smaller /home and I have tried all the known > tools for assigning a UUID to /home. Nothing works and half the time my > laptop won't boot because Linux switches the two disk assignments around > (another Linux "feature").
Annoying, but interesting. What type of filesystem is it?
And is it on a fixed partition (eg /dev/sda5), RAID (eg /dev/md1), or
LVM (eg /dev/mapper/vg1-home)?
Assuming ext4, I guess you looked at the output of:
sudo tune2fs -l /dev/<DEVICE>
Also, is it being mounted by UUID or device name in /etc/fstab?
> It's odd. Setting a UUID is silently ignored and blkid also ignores the
> device. I tried deleting and recreating the filesystem but that didn't make
> any difference.
Running lsblk might also be useful to check whether it is depending on
another device being available (eg LVM on RAID on physical drives).
Is the disk partitioned as GPT, and could there be some sort of
unintentional conflict between GPT's disk identifier UUID and the
filesystem's UUID?
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