Ubuntu
util-linux package

  1. Bug #428318
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 428318

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Lawrence Rust (lawrence-softsystem) wrote : Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid

I don't agree, this is a bug either in the base version of e2fsprogs used or in the Ubuntu patches. To prove this I built the latest e2fsprogs-1.41.9.tar.gz from SourceForge and ran

sudo /home/lvr/e2fs/sbin/blkid -c /dev/null /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="boot" UUID="41584c58-0cef-4d78-acd1-9a01ebd87833" TYPE="ext2"

So the latest official tools have no difficulty in identifying the partition and type. Not only that but the line in /etc/fstab has the FS type fully specified so no excuses for not identifying it.

Re. your suggestion to wipe and reformat - I stated earlier that I used gparted to create this partition so that won't help. _All_ other major Linux distros (suse, fedora, gentoo, mandriva, slackware) recognize this partition - that must say something.

This is a real killer bug for me. If Karmic ships with this bug then I will have to jump ships.