[ale] Unable to mount disks with UUID
Alex Carver
agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Tue Dec 15 21:57:21 EST 2015
Yes, it was autogenerated during various kernel installs. I have not
edited fstab to add UUID on either system that had an issue.
On 2015-12-15 18:56, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Do you have the syntax sorted? the rightmost column is supposed to look
> like
>
> UUID=d88c0ab0-320c-4093-8316-e6dde520e2c1
>
> No quotes.
>
> On 12/15/15 9:48 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> Ok, I just had a machine crash and need a reboot. When it came up it
>> was waiting for a password (so it sat all day waiting for me to get back
>> to find that) and then it proceeded to fail to mount any of the other
>> disks in the system because the UUIDs wouldn't work. Running blkid on
>> the partitions shows the right UUID which matches what is in fstab but
>> didn't work. Using the /dev/sdxy references worked fine so I switched
>> the fstab to use those but fstab will likely get rewritten by another
>> kernel update (like it did already) so I need to figure out why UUID
>> mounting is failing.
>>
>> Anyone seen this before? It also happened on another machine that I
>> refreshed recently. It couldn't boot its own root partition and I had
>> to go in and fix the fstab to point to /dev/sdxy.
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