Bad fstab created by edgy upgrade

[Derek Broughton]

R Kimber wrote:

> The problem is that fstab is now unreadable by ordinary mortals who
> used to understand what was going on.
> 
> How can I edit the new fstab to make sure the right partition of the
> right disk is mounted as /home?  And how can I check that the other
> entries are OK?

I'm sure it's not the "right" way, but I just used the old /dev/sda*
partition names...
> 
> I have managed to boot up with the old pre-uuid fstab, with all the
> correct files appearing in /home, but presumably I can't use this
> permanently, and presumably doing so would screw up any upgrade to
> feisty.

I don't think there's a "presumably" there at all.  aiui, the intent was to
keep the fstab independent of device names - specifically because iirc at
some point the differentiation between /dev/sd* & /dev/hd* for SCSI/SATA or
IDE will disappear, but UUID seems no more reliable than the device name. 
I think either method (or LABEL instead of UUID) will continue to be
usable.  LABEL is the only method that I find workable, as it uses the
label that _I_ assigned.
-- 
derek