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. etc.. > > Now I didn't give anyone permission to muck about with my fstab, but > some damn update process has done so. Is there a document that > describes how to translate between UUID-gibberish and sensible, > understandable, logical /dev names? What wally chose this stupid system > fro Ubuntu anyway (seriously considers chucking the whole thing... and > going back to Linux ;-) > > All I want is to mount /dev/hdb7 at boot time. > Device names will change if you add or remove partitions or you swap drives around. UUIDs won't.
mojo-jojo david% ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 55253d44-5444-4ef1-abd0-87e6dae4fb8e -> ../../hda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 71a347a0-e957-42b7-a9b7-12d26038408d -> ../../hda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 77ca880a-8b94-4a66-b081-aac45a8d6cf1 -> ../../hda5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 e96e5965-ac00-4f4d-8213-a48aec958c66 -> ../../hda4 -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
