Mounting ext4 filesystems

[Bill Davidsen]

stan wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Is there a tool like dumpe2fs which will let me see the UUID of a 
>> filesystem in ext4 format? And if so, dare I hope that if I put the 
>> UUID and type ext4 in /etc/fstab that it will mount without my doing 
>> any manual labor?
>>
>> The machine in question has kind of a variable hardware configuration, 
>> and I don't dare use a device name in fstab, since it could be 
>> wrong.Or is there a newer version of dumpe2fs in the pipeline which 
>> will provide that capability? The version on rawhide is the same as 
>> FC9, other than saying fc11 instead of fc9 in the version-id.
>>
> Is is something like /sbin/blkid you are looking for?  It lists block 
> ids for all partitions.
> 
> I am running F10 x86_64 and I just use ext4 as the type in fstab to 
> mount ext4 partitions and it works fine.  They mount fine from F9 as 
> well as near as I can tell.  I am able to rwx on them at least.
> 
Yeah, what I was thinking of is "vol_id" which doesn't seem to be in the path, 
and provides more information (at least by default),but blkid will provide the 
UUID, which is all I need. Will test momentarily.

Thanks.

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