On Sb, 31 iul 10, 15:15:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100731_225121, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > > > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure > > > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by grub. The output of > > > df -h is still the same mixed up mess. > > > > Device names are not stable (not changing), only UUIDs and LABELs are. > > UUID is not entirely stable. If during a new install you choose to have > a partition re-initialized, the partitioning software also writes a new, > different UUID into its superblock. For a label, you have the option of > giving the same value as it had before. Of course UUID changes or re-format :) What I meant was that device names can change for other reasons (I remember posts about machines having different device names across reboots with the *same* kernel). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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