edgy->feisty cdrom mountpoint

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 27 22:03:39 BST 2007


On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:38:37PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:06:20PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Which systems does that affect in particular? My /dev/cdrom is
> > > /dev/hdb, as it has always been.
> > It probably affects the same systems which had their hard discs change
> > from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd*.
> 
> No, they should all be moved to UUID based fstab's, no? We can't really
> do that with removable devices, AFAICS.

This is a static mount point intended to allow any volume to be mounted on
the standard mount point; mounting it by UUID (and therefore making it
specific to one volume) would defeat the purpose.

-- 
 - mdz



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