Need help converting a FAT32 partition to EXT3

Hi everybody,
I have had an old FAT32 partition laying around on my disk for a while which stored some files of mine all this time. It has actually worked decent over the years but I would rather it be EXT3. So in that effort I used Gparted and deleted this partition and created an EXT3 partition from the resultant space. All of this has worked fine, but now I am having trouble mounting it upon boot. I have the old FAT32 entry for this partition in my fstab file but I need to modify this line to mount this EXT3 partition instead. I am getting hung up on the parameters. I have 2 questions:

1.) Can I use the same parameters that I have for my /home partition that is also EXT3(baring of course the mount point and device name)? Or should I use the line for the / partition? The fstab entry for the / partition is slightly different than the one for /home

2.) There is a parameter called UUID. What do i use as a value for that?

Thanks.

 

device mountpoint fstype options(defaults will work fine here) 0 0

ie. /dev/sda5 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0 will work

the command blkid will show you the uuid of partitions if you want, but it's not necessary

 

Code:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

will show you the UUIDs of your partitions.

Then in your fstab, put

Code:

UUID=whatever /some/mount/point ext3 defaults 0 0