blkid command given at the top of /etc/fstab is unhelpful

[Mary Gardiner]

Binary package hint: partman-base

I installed Ubuntu from a Maverick pre-release, I believe.

The top of my /etc/fstab reads:

# Use 'blkid -o value -s 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).

Here's the output of 'blkid -o value -s UUID' on my system:

# blkid -o value -s UUID
41fe5a06-b480-4a01-9757-e8da80c7d2c9
0a79a7ec-c4af-44a2-b8c0-8556955bdc8f
3030764d-d0a9-4bb9-9b15-e3382e9fbba0
16403f4a-d1b4-4336-8f22-1321f5fdeade
6dcbfd60-d415-4f3b-bd50-da5f24aee012
7b2f25c7-c437-4535-868c-f7eec107285c
f66ea478-cf99-4101-8666-582440c79738

That gives no information about which partitions correspond to which UUIDs!

The command that is more useful is 'blkid -o full -s UUID'

# blkid -o full -s UUID
/dev/sda1: UUID="41fe5a06-b480-4a01-9757-e8da80c7d2c9"
/dev/sda2: UUID="0a79a7ec-c4af-44a2-b8c0-8556955bdc8f"
/dev/sda5: UUID="3030764d-d0a9-4bb9-9b15-e3382e9fbba0"
/dev/sda6: UUID="16403f4a-d1b4-4336-8f22-1321f5fdeade"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="6dcbfd60-d415-4f3b-bd50-da5f24aee012"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="7b2f25c7-c437-4535-868c-f7eec107285c"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="f66ea478-cf99-4101-8666-582440c79738"