Re: [Hampshire] fstab & UUID - sanity check

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Author: Michael-John Turner
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] fstab & UUID - sanity check
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:43:15AM +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Assuming you can get consistent UUIDs for external (USB/firewire) drives.
> Not sure whether you do or not.


As has been mentioned, the UUID belonds to the filesystem, not the drive.
The OP has two options, I guess:
1) Set the UUID of the filesystem on each external drive to be the same
(eg, using "tune2fs -U" for ext3/4)
2) Create the necessary fstab entries to mount each drive by UUID in
the same location

-mj
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