[ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

[David King]

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
>
>