Re: changing file system names

2008-06-30 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, James Mcphee wrote: > What you're talking about is exactly why Ubuntu and some other distos went > with UUID's instead of paths in /etc/fstab. Does your distro support those? > > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > # /dev/sd

Re: changing file system names

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Jones
Robert Holtzman wrote: > Just had occasion to look at my /etc/mtab and the file system names had > changed from /dev/sda* to /dev/sdb*. My /etc/fstab still shows /dev/sda*. > This may have happened when I recently used gparted to create 3 new > partitions (which I have yet to designate labels or

Re: changing file system names

2008-06-29 Thread James Mcphee
What you're talking about is exactly why Ubuntu and some other distos went with UUID's instead of paths in /etc/fstab. Does your distro support those? # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 # /dev/sdb1 UUID=53bb8ce3-7822-46ba-a18a-34d00d1f70b7 /

changing file system names

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
Just had occasion to look at my /etc/mtab and the file system names had changed from /dev/sda* to /dev/sdb*. My /etc/fstab still shows /dev/sda*. This may have happened when I recently used gparted to create 3 new partitions (which I have yet to designate labels or mount points for). What happene