Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007

> I am having problems mounting one of my USB disks by
> its UUID. Mounting the drive as /dev/sdx# works
> flawlessly. As I am not sure how to approach the
> problem, here is some of the stuff that I have tried:
>
> blkid correctly lists the disk and corresponding info.
> /dev/disk/by-uuid does not list the UUID of the disk
> vol_id /dev/sdx# gives the error message /dev/sdx#:
> unknown volume type
> vol_id --type vfat /dev/sdx# results in vfat: error
> opening volume

what does 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/' and 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/' show? You can IIRC also use the by-id instead of by-uuid.

Kevin Mark @verizon.net