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Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess



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
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