Adding a drive

[Tom H]

On 05/04/10, Steve Morris wrote:
>> Just a comment on this process. I is my experience that the only safe
>> method of mounting a partition is to ensure that at format time a
>> label is specified for the partition and use the label in the fstab
>> entry, uuid is terribly unreliable.
>> Uuid is unreliable as a partition identifier because moving a
>> partition changes the uuid, deleting and recreating a partition in the
>> same physical place changes the uuid and an inplace resize of a
>> partition changes the uuid.

On 05/04/2010, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Ah, a most interesting point. I have taken a note of this, thanks very much.

Not using a UUID goes against Ubuntu standard practice (and upcoming
Debian standard practice).

It should be standard operating procedure for anyone about to embark
on any of the above partition changes to make a note of the UUIDs (if
she/he does not have this information saved offline) in order to
reassign them (a very simple procedure).