GNOME Partition Editor - evolved into problem with chmod

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Matt Brown wrote:

> 
> you can try this it might give you want you are looking for.
>
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Bret Busby wrote:
>>>> The Debian fstab entry (I edited the fstab file, to incorporate the
>>>> partition, from the Debian side) is
>>>> "
>>>> /dev/hdc8       /data           ext3    defaults        0       0
>>>> "
>>>
>>> Ubuntu fstab uses UUID, this way.
>>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>>> # /dev/sda1
>>> UUID=8ee9b4b5-98f9-4849-93bf-cec44029ae8e /public     ext3 defaults  0 0
>>>
>>> The UUID is from the "vol_id -u /dev/sda1" command
>>>
>>
>> "Ah, there's the rub" (From Hamlet, I believe).
>>
>> As Ubuntu apparently uses the UUID instead of the device path, in the
>> fstab, in the filesystem column, how do I get the UUID, to get a
>> partition mounted?
>>
>> I have now managed to get the particular (hdc8) partition mounted, and
>> writable, and written to, in Debian, but I now do not know how to get
>> the file mounted in Ubuntu.
>>
>> If I try to get the UUID for the partition, by using the "vol_id -u"
>> command, it returns "error opening device", I assume, because the device
>> is not mounted.
>>
>> So, as I cannot mount the device, without the UUID, how do I get the
>> UUID, if the device is not mounted?
>>
>> Thank you in anticipation.
>>
>> --
>> Bret Busby
>> Armadale
>> West Australia
>> ..............
>>

Would that work, given that the partition is not mounted?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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