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? 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. Note: I have run dosfsck on the one vfat partition and fskck on the ext3 partitions and the checks found no errors on any of the partitions. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions regarding this problem Tom -- 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/20100618171548.ga2...@tomgeorge.info