[ale] Ubuntu help

Joshua Kite jwkite at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 13:38:57 EST 2009


2009/1/26 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>

> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:15:25 -0500
> Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Installing Grub did the trick.  I also had to clean up fstab for the
> > move from the hd* to the sd* hard drive naming convention, but at
> > this point my server is now up, running, and updated.  Hopefully I'll
> > avoid mistakes like this one in the future.  Besides learning to read
> > logs and keep systems updated, I've now learned the important
> > difference between LTS and non-LTS versions of the Ubuntu distro.  In
> > short, while it seems that changing sources.list and using apt-get
> > upgrade SHOULD work, chances are it will break your system when
> > making major jump-shifts in distrobutions.
>
> You may want to use the UUID convention for /etc/fstab.
>
> Just run 'blkid' and then replace the /dev/sdXX column in /etc/fstab
> with UUID=XXXXXXX ...
>
> This way you can move disks and partitions around and they'll still be
> found and usable without having to update /etc/fstab.  :-)
>
>        --- Mike
>
>
Thanks for the tip.  I didn't know how to identify the UUID's.  I'm going to
let the machine rest for a little while before I make any more changes, but
that's definitely something I'll do the next time I work on that box.
Thanks again.

Josh
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