Re: UUID vs /dev
Joe Hart wrote the following on 24.04.2007 18:28:
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> 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:
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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.
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> Joe
bye Thilo
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