When converting to partuuids, if there is an empty element in ${src_partition[@]}, then /etc/fstab will have /dev/ replaced with PARTUUID= without actually changing the device name to a PARTUUID.
I don't have the exact logs when this happened to me, but it looked something like this:
$ sudo rpi-clone -l sda --convert-fstab-to-partuuid
This will change your /etc/fstab, are you sure? (yes/no): yes
Converting /etc/fstab from device names to PARTUUID
lsblk: /dev/: not a block device
Editing /etc/fstab, changing /dev/ to
...
and I ended up with a broken fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=mmcblk0p6 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=mmcblk0p7 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
# use dphys-swapfile swap[on|off] for that
I had previously run sudo rpi-clone -l sda so perhaps that is why there was an empty element in src_partition, I'm not sure.
Changes
Check that ${src_partition[p]} is not empty before editing /etc/fstab.
Then, the command I used will instead exit with an error, which is much safer:
Could not find any sda partition names in /etc/fstab, nothing changed.
Issue
When converting to partuuids, if there is an empty element in
${src_partition[@]}
, then/etc/fstab
will have/dev/
replaced withPARTUUID=
without actually changing the device name to a PARTUUID.I don't have the exact logs when this happened to me, but it looked something like this:
and I ended up with a broken fstab:
I had previously run
sudo rpi-clone -l sda
so perhaps that is why there was an empty element insrc_partition
, I'm not sure.Changes
Check that
${src_partition[p]}
is not empty before editing/etc/fstab
.Then, the command I used will instead exit with an error, which is much safer: