disks renamed in 8.04

[Derek Broughton]

R Kimber wrote:

> Having upgraded to 8.04, I find that the disks have been renamed.
> 
> What was hdb1 now seems to be sdb1.  The problem with this is that my
> external USB drive used for backups used to be /dev/sdb1.  How do I find
> out what it is now so that I can edit the scripts that write to
> it?

You probably want to go device-independent.  Use the UUID the same way fstab
does.  You can find it with "sudo vol_id"
-- 
derek