Re: UUID vs /dev
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:28:24PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
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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.
there were times that folks had a drive showup as hda and then sda or
hda then hde because of various issues(distro, kernel module, etc.)
UUID or similar methods removed those issues and provides consisent
device nameing.
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