Comments on: /etc/fstab help for Distro Hoppers http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/ ...but I'm right!...and coming to you live, at times Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:26:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Migrated to my new Kingston 128G SSDNow-V « Steve on Security http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/comment-page-1/#comment-4565 Migrated to my new Kingston 128G SSDNow-V « Steve on Security Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:20:15 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/19/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/#comment-4565 [...] the old Maxtor for the rest of the OS Load.  Grrrrrgggggggggggh.  (Note, get confortable with the vol_id utility so you can find the unique UUIDs for all your drives and update your fstab to use UUIDs [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4565','Migrated to my new Kingston 128G SSDNow-V « Steve on Security'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4565','Migrated to my new Kingston 128G SSDNow-V « Steve on Security','[...] the old Maxtor for the rest of the OS Load.  Grrrrrgggggggggggh.  (Note, get confortable with the vol_id utility so you can find the unique UUIDs for all your drives and update your fstab to use UUIDs [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] the old Maxtor for the rest of the OS Load.  Grrrrrgggggggggggh.  (Note, get confortable with the vol_id utility so you can find the unique UUIDs for all your drives and update your fstab to use UUIDs [...]
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]]> By: Larry Who? http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/comment-page-1/#comment-4015 Larry Who? Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:03:03 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/19/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/#comment-4015 I'm sorry, but I still find /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 more user friendly in my fstab. At least that way you know what is what, that UUID is useless when trying to figure which partition it is.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('4015','Larry Who?'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('4015','Larry Who?','I\'m sorry, but I still find \/dev\/hda1 or \/dev\/sda1 more user friendly in my fstab. At least that way you know what is what, that UUID is useless when trying to figure which partition it is.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’m sorry, but I still find /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 more user friendly in my fstab. At least that way you know what is what, that UUID is useless when trying to figure which partition it is.
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]]> By: MrCorey http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/comment-page-1/#comment-3987 MrCorey Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:40:15 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/19/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/#comment-3987 Stephen, what is the result of the vol_id command? What is the output? fsck is trying to work on the information provided in /etc/fstab, which may not match your actual volume UUID.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3987','MrCorey'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3987','MrCorey','Stephen, what is the result of the vol_id command? What is the output? fsck is trying to work on the information provided in \/etc\/fstab, which may not match your actual volume UUID.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Stephen, what is the result of the vol_id command? What is the output? fsck is trying to work on the information provided in /etc/fstab, which may not match your actual volume UUID.
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]]> By: Stephen http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/comment-page-1/#comment-3986 Stephen Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:49:10 +0000 http://coreythompson.com/2008/01/19/etcfstab-help-for-distro-hoppers/#comment-3986 I'm having this problem...unfortunately, the UUID's are the same. I'm running Heron with the eee netbook modules, on an EEE 1000. Thanks for the help!! Here's what I'm seeing: >>> Terminal fsck [10:44:58 12] $ fsck fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID=259a3310-b2b8-4b01-bb57-c0efb89768ae' >>> Gedit fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda1 UUID=259a3310-b2b8-4b01-bb57-c0efb89768ae / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=15 0 1 # /dev/sdb1 UUID=d7729a87-b7e2-49f9-b4ee-85018f5afca7 /home ext2 relatime 0 2 /dev/sdc1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 At startup, my system is always saying bad shutdown, and that fsck died with an exit status of 4.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3986','Stephen'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3986','Stephen','I\'m having this problem...unfortunately, the UUID\'s are the same. I\'m running Heron with the eee netbook modules, on an EEE 1000. Thanks for the help!! Here\'s what I\'m seeing:\r\n\r\n>>> Terminal fsck\r\n[10:44:58 12] $ fsck\r\nfsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)\r\nfsck.ext3: Unable to resolve \'UUID=259a3310-b2b8-4b01-bb57-c0efb89768ae\'\r\n\r\n>>> Gedit fstab\r\n# \/etc\/fstab: static file system information.\r\n#\r\n# \r\nproc \/proc proc defaults 0 0\r\n# \/dev\/sda1\r\nUUID=259a3310-b2b8-4b01-bb57-c0efb89768ae \/ ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=15 0 1\r\n# \/dev\/sdb1\r\nUUID=d7729a87-b7e2-49f9-b4ee-85018f5afca7 \/home ext2 relatime 0 2\r\n\/dev\/sdc1 \/media\/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0\r\ntmpfs \/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0\r\ntmpfs \/var\/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0\r\n\r\nAt startup, my system is always saying bad shutdown, and that fsck died with an exit status of 4.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’m having this problem…unfortunately, the UUID’s are the same. I’m running Heron with the eee netbook modules, on an EEE 1000. Thanks for the help!! Here’s what I’m seeing:

>>> Terminal fsck
[10:44:58 12] $ fsck
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve ‘UUID=259a3310-b2b8-4b01-bb57-c0efb89768ae’

>>> Gedit fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=259a3310-b2b8-4b01-bb57-c0efb89768ae / ext3 noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=15 0 1
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=d7729a87-b7e2-49f9-b4ee-85018f5afca7 /home ext2 relatime 0 2
/dev/sdc1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

At startup, my system is always saying bad shutdown, and that fsck died with an exit status of 4.

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