Joe Hart wrote the following on 24.04.2007 18:28: <snip>
> I can understand the usage of UUID on removable drives, but it seems the > new way of dealing with *all* disks is UUID. Why this needs to be so > for normal hard drives remains a mystery to me. First I had used the LABEL in fstab even before Ubuntu did use UUIDs. Where is this use full? e.g. I get used to play with my system. ;) Do this, do that, try an other distri and so on. Once after an "testinstallation" the /dev/sda[1-9) system got confused. What was /var = /dev/sda5 (or s.th.) had now been /dev/sda6 which contained my /home data. Imagine my face at realising this. ;) anyway man fstab: <-------------------------------------------------------------- Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the (ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or volume label (cf. e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)), writing LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>, e.g., `LABEL=Boot' or `UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'. This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label. --------------------------------------------------------------> > Joe bye Thilo -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - some friend of mine gpg key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
