From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:32:54 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: fstab.5: NTFS and FAT volume IDs use upper case
X-Git-Tag: v2.36.2~29
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20f7fd6c26c2f4cdcc9fee24de89929be59cf342;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

fstab.5: NTFS and FAT volume IDs use upper case

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@gmx.de>
---

diff --git a/sys-utils/fstab.5 b/sys-utils/fstab.5
index 118df0d3df..2bee712d66 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