[ale] Unable to mount disks with UUID

[Jeff Hubbs]

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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