[mythtvnz] Looks like my system drive is faulty - ideas?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:26:33 +1200, you wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:24 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>> All good now apart from stuff on the stuffed disk. One thing messed with my head a bit. I recommend using UUIDs in /etc/fstab if you're not doing this already. Saves mounting confusion when /dev/sda dies and /dev/sdb becomes /dev/sda, sdc becomes sdb, etc.
>>
>
>Plus 1 for that!
>
>for those that don't know, uuids are easy to find with
>
>sudo blkid
>
>replace the tradtitional /dev/sdxn at the start of your fstab line
>with UUID=142099fd-fbee-412c-904d-f78a33fd6275 (or whatever your blkid
>gives you)

UUIDs are also available from:

  ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid