[SLL] /dev/sd names not in motherboard order

Brian Lane bcl at brianlane.com
Mon Mar 2 11:23:41 PST 2009


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On 3/2/09 11:20 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:10 -0800, Phil Mocek wrote:
>> avoids all this.  I typically leave a comment in fstab with something
>> more useful
>> than /dev/disk/by-uuid/c8b8e289-4722-4230-af73-298dd7a42892.
>>
> 
> At least on Fedora/Red Hat systems you can have root=UUID=<uuid>  rather
> than having to write out the full path.
> 
> Same can be done with labels, but those are less likely to be unique.
> 

Labels can bite you if you swap drives between machines -- ie. ending up
with two /home drives. I like UUIDs much better, even if they are hard
to memorize ;)

Brian

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