File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...
/dev/disk/by-uuid/cf7c3afd-aaf9-44ee-8905-b5d15e7c0e79 /boot xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-LVM ...
In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...