UUID and devices

Willy Hamra w.hamra1987 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 21:36:32 UTC 2009


2009/2/6 Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> hi ,
> i tend to use devices in their /dev/sdxy format more than i use UUIDs
> since it's a lot simpler to memorize, and for other reasons.
> but, on many occasions i'd temprarily add another hard drive,
> temprarily remove one of the hard drives,and this messes up stuff.
> for example, linux is on /dev/sdb now, if i take out my windows drive
> (/dev/sda), sdb becomes sda, and this confuses stuff up.
> so my question, is there anyway i can attach /dev stuff with a certain
> UUID? let the system know that *this* UUID is *always* called sdb1 for
> example, can i do such thing?
>

a possible answer for my self. the links in /dev/disk, are they
created after each boot? if so, then i can be sure that links in
/dev/disk/by-id ALWAYS point to the correct device, right? if that's
the case, can one use these links in fstab?


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Willy K. Hamra
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Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.




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