Thanks for posting this -- it just hit me, exactly as it did you. I was going into fstab to learn to permanently mount an ntfs partition at boot, and was trying to make sense of the uuid values. I read the note above, and thought "Cool. I'll use the uuid instead of the device id..."
This installation was an upgrade into Karmic from Jaunty. I gave it a whirl and came up with: ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ vol_id --uuid vol_id: command not found ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ volid --help volid: command not found the text on fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). A google search led me to this bug. Unfortunately even between the man pages, and --help, I can't quite figure out how to acquire the UUID of my partition at /dev/sda1. blkid keeps exiting without printing anything. Upon using blkid -U [uuid of one of the mounted partitions ref'd in fstab] I get the device name, /dev/sdb1 I can't figure out how to obtain the UUID, and instructions on using the command should be included as it was pre-karmic for vol_id --uuid. ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ blkid -U 251b85ad-9f35-49d3-9b4d-0bd76c70d51e /dev/sdb1 ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ blkid -L /dev/sdb1 ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ blkid /dev/sdb1 ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ blkid /dev/sdb1 ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ blkid /dev/sda1 ttilb...@ragnarok:~$ ls /dev/sd* /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc /dev/sde /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdd /dev/sdf This was about to be a cool thing, but the documentation needs to be fixed for upgraded users. Thanks, Tim -- /etc/fstab mentions vol_id but that has been replaced by blkid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480147 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
