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 you made a change to your hardware and > suddenly your system didn't boot any more.
Having fallen foul of this before - on Red Hat 7 - I agree! I didn't know that Ubuntu maintained fstab in this way, and I am rather reassured to learn about it, particularly as a new hard drive (for dual booting purposes) is somewhere on my Christmas list. Thanks, Grim. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
