[ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

[Daniel Drummond]

David King wrote:
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> Daniel Drummond wrote:
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>> Josh Holland wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> Isn't this what UUIDs in /etc/fstab are for?
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>> 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.
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>> Dan
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> 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).
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Sounds like something is wrong if your system isn't consistent in it's 
drive naming.  This should only happen if you are adding or removing 
drives. between boots.  Never been a problem for me.
> 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.
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> David King
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UUID's are like Marmite (you either love it or hate it).  Shaving 3 
seconds off the boot time was well worth it.  Jaunty was booting in 13 
seconds :-)

Dan