I think your directions (pasted from the Ubuntu uuid page) are outdated:
If you are using Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake LTS, you can use these commands to "upgrade" to UUIDs. All other supported versions of Ubuntu automatically use UUIDs, so this is not necessary.
What's your /etc/fstab look like now? You can probably just change the "/dev/sd.." names to "UUID=..." in there and that's about it, like in the fstab help page. I think mount always reports what /dev device is mounted...
... saw updated fstab. I'm not too familiar with the "fuseblk" type, I've seen it before used with encryption but not in mount's output... but if it works that's good enough. The one says it's type "exfat" so maybe replacing fuseblk with exfat would work, or even auto...
So now the drive(s) get mounted with:
/dev/sdd1 on /mnt/backupdrive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdf1 on /media/will/BackupDrive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
So I think putting these into fstab should work for the sdf one:
UUID="5053-2D7E" /media/will/BackupDrive fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
Not sure about the sdd1 one, if blkid didn't see it...? Tried sudo blkid? Or there's only the one drive isn't there? Unplugging it could give it a different sdx "name"... so maybe that's what happened there to get the 2 different entries?
