If you prefer to mount your disk partition using UUID (or for any other reason), you can set the UUID by using the tune2fs command.
You can use any unique string as the argument for the -U parameter, or you can use `uuid`, given that you have uuid package installed.
shakir@anduril:~$ sudo tune2fs /dev/hdb1 -U `uuid`
You’ll need to have root permission for this to work.
If you have the following fstab entry and want to mount the partition using the UUID instead of device name, you just need to add UUID= followed by you partition’s UUID in your fstab and you’re done.
/dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
The following is an example of same entry, using UUID.
UUID=860e4946-19a2-40ee-837a-4eca537b0ec1 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
There are a few ways to get disk partition UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) in Linux, but some requires installation of additional software or packages.
The following 2 method would normally work on any Linux system.
