On Lu, 06 oct 14, 10:23:28, John Aten wrote: > I booted up the broken system and attempted to get the device name > looking at /etc/fstab, mount and fdisk -l. I got a device name > (/dev/sda1) and a UUID.
You should use 'fdisk -l' or 'blkid' only after you boot with your rescue disk/usb/whatever, because device names may change (as you found out). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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