Public bug reported: I have a lot of hard drives, including an ATA133 add-in card with 2 HDs, onboard ATA133 with 2 HDs, and one SATA HD. Upon updating all my packages to current (as of 3-29-07 at 9am Pacific), my fstab got really messed-up. Below is my fixed fstab, with the Ubuntu-generated lines commented out, and the correct lines beneath them. One should note that while everything did mount under the Ubuntu-generated configuration, all the drive letters for my SATA and ATA133 add-in card (sda1, etc) were wrong (ie the UUIDs appeared to be wrong).
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hdc1 UUID=5cb9b1f1-af20-40ec-a362-f2bd1e64e8c6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/hda1 UUID=63f0e2a3-b520-42d8-943b-94e4b4a381b1 /media/hda1 reiserfs defaults 0 2 # /dev/hda2 UUID=1981f215-6f5b-4d93-9216-55ba82e34427 /media/hda2 reiserfs defaults 0 2 # /dev/hda3 UUID=c9d191a9-54eb-4a49-a60c-f818818acaa0 /media/hda3 reiserfs defaults 0 2 # /dev/sda5 #UUID=88813472-f156-4ee6-b8e9-41540ff07486 /media/sda1 ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda5 /media/sda5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 # /dev/sdb5 #UUID=438E-1221 /media/sdb5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 # /dev/sdc1 #UUID=9240E4B240E49DEB /media/sdc1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ext2 defaults 0 2 # /dev/hda4 UUID=abfe74bc-4a48-496f-9f15-094d868d41fa none swap sw 0 0 # /dev/hdc2 UUID=0baa44d4-2bdc-4761-960d-5126e9c85217 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Here is the output of "mount" under the correct configuration: /dev/hdc1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.20-13-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /media/hda1 type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda2 on /media/hda2 type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda3 on /media/hda3 type reiserfs (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) /dev/sda5 on /media/sda5 type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46) /dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type ntfs (rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46) /dev/sdc1 on /media/sdc1 type ext2 (rw) Here is the output of "df -h" under the correct configuration: /dev/hdc1 19G 3.9G 14G 22% / varrun 506M 108K 506M 1% /var/run varlock 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock procbususb 506M 144K 506M 1% /proc/bus/usb udev 506M 144K 506M 1% /dev devshm 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm lrm 506M 28M 479M 6% /lib/modules/2.6.20-13-generic/volatile /dev/hda1 957M 116M 842M 13% /media/hda1 /dev/hda2 120G 36G 84G 30% /media/hda2 /dev/hda3 113G 64G 49G 57% /media/hda3 /dev/sda5 75G 52G 24G 69% /media/sda5 /dev/sdb1 38G 23G 16G 60% /media/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 294G 58G 222G 21% /media/sdc1 ...and the incorrect (Ubuntu-generated) configuration: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc1 19G 3.9G 14G 22% / varrun 506M 108K 506M 1% /var/run varlock 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock procbususb 506M 144K 506M 1% /proc/bus/usb udev 506M 144K 506M 1% /dev devshm 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm lrm 506M 28M 479M 6% /lib/modules/2.6.20-13-generic/volatile /dev/hda1 957M 116M 842M 13% /media/hda1 /dev/hda2 120G 36G 84G 30% /media/hda2 /dev/hda3 113G 64G 49G 57% /media/hda3 /dev/sdc1 294G 58G 222G 21% /media/sda1 /dev/sda5 75G 52G 24G 69% /media/sdb5 /dev/sdb1 38G 23G 16G 60% /media/sdc1 I'm not sure how to get the UUID of a hard drive, but if somebody tells me how, I'll post that too. Good luck! ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Fiesty: updates on 3-29-07 royally messed up fstab https://launchpad.net/bugs/98651 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs