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 It was superseded by 'blkid'.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
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