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 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!) > You'd be complainnig more if you made a change to your hardware and suddenly your system didn't boot any more.
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