[ubuntu-uk] UUID nonsense and my disks

[David Pashley]

On Dec 16, 2006 at 15:00, Richard Downing praised the llamas by saying:
> 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!)
> 
You'd be complainnig more if you made a change to your hardware and
suddenly your system didn't boot any more.

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David Pashley
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