[ubuntu-uk] UUID nonsense and my disks

[Richard Downing]

David Pashley wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2006 at 14:35, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying:

No I didn't.  Llamas don't get praised by me - ever - hairy brutes.

  Is there a document that
>> describes how to translate between UUID-gibberish and sensible,
>> understandable, logical /dev names?  


> 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
> 
> 
Thanks.

(Still thinks they should be HUMAN readable - bad systems design - Linux
for Humans - Pah!)

R.