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e2fsprogs package

  1. Bug #110138
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 110138

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote : Re: findfs/blkid reports incorrect info / update-grub fails to resolve UUID

The error appears to be that blkid does not detect the partition correctly and findfs checks against blkid.

blkid fails to report the UUID, which is available e.g. through vol_id and additionally says that it's a ntfs partition!

# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7 56196 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 8 71 514080 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 72 7476 59480662+ 83 Linux

# blkid
/dev/sda1: TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="f52f2bea-f734-479d-a53a-4a86a9972b19" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="88c84c55-6140-4fe4-ab56-66e6d9e1532a" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/mapper/sda3: UUID="88c84c55-6140-4fe4-ab56-66e6d9e1532a" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/mapper/sda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="f52f2bea-f734-479d-a53a-4a86a9972b19"
/dev/mapper/sda1: TYPE="ntfs"