Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:34 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >>
> >> Traditional device names, such as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
> >> (and therefore the partitions on those devices, such
> >> as /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, etc.) are not assigned in a predictable
> >> manner anymore. This device name assignment can change from one boot
> >> to the next.
> >
> > This never happened on my machine.
>
> This won't happen if you have just one disk. ;)
>
> On a more serious note, do you really think that all the people
> maintaining distributions thought "using sdX is far too simple and
> easy, let's start using human-non-parsable UUIDs?!"
At least 2 disks are mounted, while I prefer to use labels, sd* anyway
does work too.
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