Mount Catastrophe -- HELP!

[Yannick Le Saint]

Ted Hilts wrote:
> I need help understanding this whole problem. When I use "mount -a"
> there are NO changes so my guess is that the UUIDs are as someone
> (before I started to look at this problem) put into place when the
> drives were installed. I don't even know how to establish what UUID is
> associated with what hard drive.

Drives can be reordered if their position on the bus change. This won't
matter when you're using uuids because each filesystem have a different
uuid which is independant of the disk number.

As for establishing uuids, you can use vol_id which is part of
volumeid's package.

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Regards.

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
http://y.lesaint.free.fr/