[mythtv-users] Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 => 8.04
John Finlay
finlay at moeraki.com
Fri May 2 23:56:13 UTC 2008
Mario Limonciello wrote:
> finlay wrote:
>
>> Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Don't use names or labels. UUIDs are used by default in Ubuntu. You should
>>> stick to these.
>>> They are used for this exact reason of upgrades risking breaking things.
>>>
>>>
>> How does one find out what the UUID of a parition is?
>>
> vol_id /dev/sdXY
>
Thanks to all who sent me this info - I used blkid to print out all the
uuids. I had my BE MB (never buy ECS) die yesterday and moving the disks
over to another system was painless because of the uuids in fstab.
John
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