[ale] Ubuntu help

[Michael B. Trausch]

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

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