Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/21/2011 11:52 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20110522_035930, annathemermaid@hush.com wrote:
> >
> snip...
> > I recently performed a manual installation of Debian, bypassing
> > partman (in order to bypass a severe problem with partman and/or
> > yaboot that was breaking another OS), and thus configured the fstab
> > manually. I used devices, just like I always do when editing
> > fstabs. It works fine. I don't see any reason to change it? What do
> > UUIDs give me that /dev/hdx or /dev/sdx don't, aside from being
> > harder to read and a pain to setup?
> more snip ...
>
> As I understand it, there can be a problem if you add or remove
> peripheral internal hardware, i.e. add or remove a single hard disk on
[snip]
> much sympathy as you would like. At the very least, I urge you to
> educate yourself on this issue.

Since like many others you find UUIDs a huge jumbled pile of human 
meaninglessness, then by all means create labels for all your fixed 
devices, and modify your /etc/fstab accordingly.  Many of us have done so.

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