Re: udev causing data loss?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, ghe wrote:
> Hmmm. That's an excellent point, and I don't know whether it's mkfs or
> fdisk that creates the UUID.

mkfs.  If you need UUID for block devices, use LVM or MD raid (you can
have a RAID1 with only one disk).

That said, devices often can be identified by (vendor,type,serial
number) and udev also generates such nodes.

> If that's correct, reformatting a partition will (can) invalidate data
> in fstab and make your machine a real PITA at boot.

That is correct.

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  Henrique Holschuh