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? > 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 > > Thanks. (Still thinks they should be HUMAN readable - bad systems design - Linux for Humans - Pah!) R. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/