Could some just confirm that if I alter my /etc/fstab file on Debian (8.04) so it doesn't have UUID
but uses /dev/sda1 etc that this is OK.
I'll explain I have a machine that I use to rsync stuff to with an external firewire drive & I just
rebooted with it connected & / when from sda5 to sdb5 and the others map & this caused problems when
I ran the autofs files as it talk to /dev/sdc1 for the first wire & this was now sda1 !!!
This is my current fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=beea7c00-c92c-4271-88e5-1f04604367db / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=af700a2c-e6af-4b78-8e1a-8c2d0b4cda9d /boot ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda2
UUID=81b77783-17ff-46f8-a7d6-b86d97ac3870 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda3
UUID=79e97d84-595f-474c-b311-155a9ad05ef1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /home/rsync/extra_drive ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0
so I think it'll be OK to change to
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/sda2 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /home/rsync/extra_drive ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0
Thanks
Brian
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