The man-page indicates that mount expects UUIDs to be lower case. Mention that NTFS and FAT volume IDs are to be specified in upper case. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> --- sys-utils/fstab.5 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/sys-utils/fstab.5 b/sys-utils/fstab.5 index 118df0d3d..2bee712d6 100644 --- a/sys-utils/fstab.5 +++ b/sys-utils/fstab.5 @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ Note that .BR mount (8) uses UUIDs as strings. The string representation of the UUID should be based on lower case characters. +But when specifying the volume ID of FAT or NTFS file systems upper case +characters are used (e.g UUID="A40D-85E7" or UUID="61DB7756DB7779B3"). .RE .B The second field -- 2.29.2
