On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 14:41 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf > <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf > >> <ralf.mard...@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. > > I couldn't care less how many disks you have. > > Defaulting to the use of UUIDs isn't some wacky whim but a > well-reasoned technical decision, unless you want to claim to know > more than the developers putting together distributions. > > This isn't a question of "/dev/sdX works for me, yay!" The issue is > that device names aren't NECESSARILY stable (some would say that > they've never been so) so, distributions are using UUIDs in order to > avoid having any Linux user anywhere be unable to boot because sda is > now sdc, sdb is now sda, and sdc is now sdb...
I only want to mention that this never happened on my machine within the last >= 10 years and I turn my PC often on and off. How often does it switch on your machine? Does anybody experience that sda became sdb after rebooting? I don't claim that this can't happen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1380336853.689.36.camel@archlinux
