[ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata
David King
linuxman at avoura.com
Thu Oct 1 21:05:17 BST 2009
I found that not using UUID caused headaches, as the PC, when booting
up, recognised the drives in a different order each time (using SATA
drives, and for a while some IDE drives too).
So I think that using UUID is essential for all internal drives. I have
found it best for USB drives to not be mounted from fstab, but instead I
use a script to mount them on the mountpoints I choose.
David King
Daniel Drummond wrote:
> Josh Holland wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI card's
>>> drives become SDA and SDB and the Mobo's drives follow from there. So a
>>> bit of twiddling with FSTAB is required on existing installation.
>>>
>>>
>> Isn't this what UUIDs in /etc/fstab are for?
>>
>>
>>
> Some people don't use UUIDs. I removed them from my /etc/fstab, and
> stopped them being generated in the boot sequence. Shaved a few seconds
> off my boot time, as some of the processes were waiting on them being
> available.
>
> Dan
>
>
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