Alex Samad wrote: > 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; > > you don't have to worry about ordering. I prefer to LABEL. that way it > doesn't matter what order the disks are found they always load up > properly.
Be careful if you ever do a raw copy of a partition's data to another (e.g., to move a file system from one partition to another). Since file system UUIDs and labels are both written in the partition, right after the copy you'll have two partitions/file systems with the same UUID or label. Be sure to delete or zero out enough of the old partition before trying to re-mount the file system. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]
