UUID issue with new hard-drive

Posted by on January 16, 2009 Leave a comment (4) Go to comments

I just added a new hard-drive to my system. I created an ext3 partition and used vol_id and blkid to show the UUID. Based on that information, I edited the /etc/fstab file accordingly. When I try the sudo mount -a command, I get

mount: special device /dev/disk/by-uuid/*the uuid of the new partition* does not exist

and the mount fails.
To resolve that, just use

sudo partprobe

It updates the /dev/disk/by-uuid directory and your uuid mount works like a charm.

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  1. Marc Richter February 17, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    That doesn’t work in Ubuntu Linux 😛

  2. cviorel February 17, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    It works, trust me. Did you try it?

  3. Henry78 May 11, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    No, doesn’t work in ubuntu server 8.04. Anybody knows how to get it working?

  4. dmizer May 20, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Thank you so much for this. Worked in Ubuntu server 8.04 after I finally got around to partitioning my new hard drive. If it didn’t work, make sure you got the UUID correct by checking the output of blkid.

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