Thread: adding an old external drive to fstab using uuid

this very old drive, 1 of seagates first. has vfat filesystem.

want add device /etc/fstab (not sudo) have write access it, , because add/remove external drives desktop, location of drive changes. however, when do

code:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

i get

code:

total 0  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-20 03:08 07d7-0402 -> ../../sda1  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-20 12:00 1bf01501126bedb9 -> ../../sdb1  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-20 03:08 4ac7144d-c29e-4cc2-a93e-e72c74c89005 -> ../../sda7  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-20 03:08 5fde77b2003bfe84 -> ../../sda3  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-20 03:08 923cf8013cf7dde3 -> ../../sda2  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-20 03:08 9493f3bc-b78f-4de9-a402-96c0091b3ca0 -> ../../sda5  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-07-20 03:08 e87c9022-8820-4e7b-b1d8-1886d825ca48 -> ../../sda6

in other words, doesn't show up. device (right now) /dev/sdc1, when do

code:

sudo vol_id /dev/sdc1

i get

code:

/dev/sdc1: unknown volume type

one last thing, when do

code:

sudo blkid

it shows up!

code:

/dev/sdc1: label="seagate" uuid="0000-0f12" type="vfat"

now have uuid, right? nope, when add device /etc/fstab using above uuid, , try , mount using

code:

mount /media/seagate

i get

code:

mount: special device /dev/disk/by-uuid/0000-0f12 not exist

what's up?

try mounting using label instead of uuid in /etc/fstab. uuid listed drive looks suspiciously generic used when volume has fat12 filesystem on it... if small drive, , hasn't been formatted in long time, might fat12 instead of fat32. in case might need mount msdos , not vfat. i'm guessing though, should give things try out.

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