Hi
Richard Downing wrote:
> (Still thinks they should be HUMAN readable - bad systems design - Linux
> for Humans - Pah!)
I can't imagine most humans would want to go near fstab and that even
using the original device names and not the UUID symlinks, it's still
not especially human readable. How
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, David Pashley wrote:
>>> Device names will change if you add or remove partitions or you swap
>>> drives around. UUIDs won't.
>>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> (Still thinks they should be HUMAN readable - bad systems design - Linux
>> for Humans - Pah!)
>>
> You'd be complainnig more if
On Dec 16, 2006 at 15:00, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying:
> David Pashley wrote:
> > On Dec 16, 2006 at 14:35, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying:
>
> No I didn't. Llamas don't get praised by me - ever - hairy brutes.
>
> Is there a document that
> >> describes how to t
David Pashley wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2006 at 14:35, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying:
No I didn't. Llamas don't get praised by me - ever - hairy brutes.
Is there a document that
>> describes how to translate between UUID-gibberish and sensible,
>> understandable, logical /dev names?
On Dec 16, 2006 at 14:35, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying:
> Long after upgrading to 6.10, I wanted to change one of the partitions
> that gets mounted. So off I goes to edit /etc/fstab (as you would),
> only to find it full of gibberish instead of neatly understandable
> /dev/hda etc
Long after upgrading to 6.10, I wanted to change one of the partitions
that gets mounted. So off I goes to edit /etc/fstab (as you would),
only to find it full of gibberish instead of neatly understandable
/dev/hda etc. etc..
Now I didn't give anyone permission to muck about with my fstab, but
so
