On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:51:12PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > Hi, > > What are the advantages by using > drives are now identified by UUID > over than /dev/xxx;
Your mounts in /etc/fstab will not be broken when you delete a partition, or perform other operations that change the /dev/xxx assigned to particular partition. Especially useful for USB drives, where you have no guarantee what the /dev/xxx will be when you plug them in. cheers > thanks > bela > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
