UUIDs on drives (was Hibernate on batery low)

[Derek Broughton]

Pastor JW wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 03:26:51 pm Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:
>>
>> I prefer the old method too.  I think the problem is that many people use
>> external drives now and the devices will change, so UUIDs solve the
>> problem.
>>
>> Is this the correct reasoning?  I'm just guessing here.  Are there any
>> other advantages to using UUIDs that I'm missing?
> 
> I DO wish they would fix their UUID method to allow the OS to find the
> swap
> partition so hibernate would properly work with it.  Either that or remove
> hibernate from the options.  Suspend seems to work and uses very little
> battery while suspended.  Maybe swap needs looked at itself as with the
> current UUID style of doing things the OS can't find it.

Huh?  Mine always has - even after mkswap.
-- 
derek