[ubuntu-uk] UUID nonsense and my disks

[David Pashley]

On Dec 16, 2006 at 14:35, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying:
> Long after upgrading to 6.10, I wanted to change one of the partitions
> that gets mounted.  So off I goes to edit /etc/fstab (as you would),
> only to find it full of gibberish instead of neatly understandable
> /dev/hda etc. etc..
> 
> Now I didn't give anyone permission to muck about with my fstab, but
> some damn update process has done so.  Is there a document that
> describes how to translate between UUID-gibberish and sensible,
> understandable, logical /dev names?  What wally chose this stupid system
> fro Ubuntu anyway (seriously considers chucking the whole thing... and
> going back to Linux ;-)
> 
> All I want is to mount /dev/hdb7 at boot time.
> 
Device names will change if you add or remove partitions or you swap
drives around. UUIDs won't. 

mojo-jojo david% ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 55253d44-5444-4ef1-abd0-87e6dae4fb8e -> ../../hda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 71a347a0-e957-42b7-a9b7-12d26038408d -> ../../hda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 77ca880a-8b94-4a66-b081-aac45a8d6cf1 -> ../../hda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-11-30 22:17 e96e5965-ac00-4f4d-8213-a48aec958c66 -> ../../hda4


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