<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> H.J.Bathoorn wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20061102105110.f6510cda.triade-lists@zeelandnet.nl" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:15:24 +0100 Finn Jespersen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fsjster@gmail.com"><fsjster@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">root=UUID=b02e6475-695f-4529-bd93-ca36dbac752a ro quiet splash </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Out of curiosity, what's this "UUID=b02e6[...]" coming from? That's unusual. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">You know, I have absolutely no idea :) Mayby someone else on the list know? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It replaces the archaic /dev/hda or b entries. You can still use them in fstab and grub but in time they will become obsolete. Downside is when backing up with 'dd' you also copy the UUIDL of that partition and can get into trouble when a disk has been repartitioned. It also makes it harder to change fstab entries IMO, though of course there's a solution available to everything. </pre> </blockquote> Why would a human notation be considered archaic? When I look at that machine number I'm reminded of M$. Of course I know nothing of internals, but I like that I can go into config files, understand and adjust things myself. </body> </html>