Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer
in Squeeze contains the following comment lines:

# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

What is 'vol_id' ? The context suggests that it is an executable
program that is run from the command line, but there is no such object
in the search PATH. And man 5 fstab brings up a man page that does not
contain the sting, vol_id. How do I use the information that this
comment seems to attempt to convey? Is the string, vol_id --uuid,
intended as the argument to some other program? What is the name of
that other program?

TIA

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Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

Paul E Condon wrote:
> The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer
> in Squeeze contains the following comment lines:
>
> # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
>
> What is 'vol_id' ?

That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must
have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id
--uuid try running blkid.

man blkid

If that comment is still occurring on a fresh installation then it
warrants a bug report to get it updated.

> The context suggests that it is an executable program that is run
> from the command line, but there is no such object in the search
> PATH.

IIRC that came through the Ubuntu path and would have existed there in
/lib/udev/vol_id but now for all uses you want to map that to blkid.

Bob

Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

Bob Proulx wrote:

Paul E Condon wrote:

The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer
in Squeeze contains the following comment lines:

# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

What is 'vol_id' ?


That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must
have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id
--uuid try running blkid.

man blkid

If that comment is still occurring on a fresh installation then it
warrants a bug report to get it updated.


The context suggests that it is an executable program that is run
from the command line, but there is no such object in the search
PATH.


IIRC that came through the Ubuntu path and would have existed there in
/lib/udev/vol_id but now for all uses you want to map that to blkid.



That brings up a question: that mapping of device-label-uuid which blkid
does, is that available in another way or is blkid the only tool that
does that?


Hugo


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Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > What is 'vol_id' ?
> >
> > That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must
> > have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id
> > --uuid try running blkid.
> >
> > man blkid
>
> That brings up a question: that mapping of device-label-uuid which
> blkid does, is that available in another way or is blkid the only
> tool that does that?

You can get it from udev with:

ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid

Bob

Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

Bob Proulx wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Bob Proulx wrote:

Paul E Condon wrote:

What is 'vol_id' ?

That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must
have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id
--uuid try running blkid.

man blkid

That brings up a question: that mapping of device-label-uuid which
blkid does, is that available in another way or is blkid the only
tool that does that?


You can get it from udev with:

ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid



and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!

Hugo


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Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>
> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!

/dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?

$ ls -log /dev/disk/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 1240 Dec 16 11:26 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 380 Dec 16 11:26 by-path
drwxr-xr-x 2 200 Dec 16 11:26 by-uuid

That is for both Lenny and Squeeze.

Bob

Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

In <20101218221908.GA5350@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote:
>Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>>
>> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
>
>/dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?

$ ls /dev/disk
by-id by-label by-path by-uuid
$ uname -a
Linux monster 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 10 15:35:08 UTC 2010 x86_64
GNU/Linux

(I'm on mostly Squeeze;
stable+security+volatile+multimedia/lenny(winehq)/lenny-
backports/testing+security+multimedia/squeeze(winehq)/unstable+multimedia/sid(winehq)/experimental
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Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:19:08 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>>
>> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
>
> /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?
>
> $ ls -log /dev/disk/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 1240 Dec 16 11:26 by-id
> drwxr-xr-x 2 380 Dec 16 11:26 by-path
> drwxr-xr-x 2 200 Dec 16 11:26 by-uuid
>
> That is for both Lenny and Squeeze.

Yes, "by-label" (lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64):

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -log /dev/disk/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 280 dic 19 10:58 by-id
drwxr-xr-x 2 80 dic 19 10:58 by-label
drwxr-xr-x 2 180 dic 19 10:58 by-path
drwxr-xr-x 2 100 dic 19 10:58 by-uuid

If you have not label defined for any volume, the node won't be
automatically created.

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Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:51:28 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <20101218221908.GA5350@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>> ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid
>>>
>>> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks!
>>
>> /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running?
>
> $ ls /dev/disk
> by-id by-label by-path by-uuid
> $ uname -a
> Linux monster 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 10 15:35:08 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> ...

/dev is a pseudo file system created by udev. Under ordinary conditions,
no data in it persists across reboots. I suspect that udev does not create
a /dev/by-label directory unless it detects a disk partition with a label
during boot.

Perhaps none of Bob's partitions are labeled? A label is optional, both for
mkswap and mke2fs. And if the partitioning/formatting is done by the Debian
installer, there may not be any labels. A label can be added after the fact
with e2label, or an inactive swap partition can be reformatted by mkswap with
a label specified. blkid will list the label, if there is one.

Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during formatting.

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Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze
 

Stephen Powell wrote:
> /dev is a pseudo file system created by udev. Under ordinary conditions,
> no data in it persists across reboots. I suspect that udev does not create
> a /dev/by-label directory unless it detects a disk partition with a label
> during boot.
>
> Perhaps none of Bob's partitions are labeled?

Good call. I never use labels. That explains it.

In my case I almost universially use raid and lvm and both of those
use UUIDs internally. Meaning that although I never specify those
long uuids anywhere I get the benefit of them along with short device
names by default. Which is better than a label. But I wanted to say
that I wasn't against labels so much as being for raid and lvm.

Bob