On Sun, 22 May 2011 03:59:30 +0000, annathemermaid wrote: > On 21/05/2011, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd say there is no perfect method to manage this. >> >> I still miss the old-plain-intuitive method for designating block > devices >> (hda → first ide, hdb → second ide device, sda → first scsi/sata > device, >> etc...) but we have to cope the new changes because they are vry > much >> needed (nowadays we connect many devices of diverse nature, most > of them >> hot-swappable and they cannot overlap). > > I recently performed a manual installation of Debian, bypassing partman > (in order to bypass a severe problem with partman and/or yaboot that was > breaking another OS), and thus configured the fstab manually. I used > devices, just like I always do when editing fstabs. It works fine. I > don't see any reason to change it? What do UUIDs give me that /dev/hdx > or /dev/sdx don't, aside from being harder to read and a pain to setup? "Reasons" for the change are explained here: Overview: UUIDs, Labels and fstab http://wiki.debian.org/Part-UUID Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.22.12.01...@gmail.com
