UUIDs on drives (was Hibernate on battery low)

[Derek Broughton]

Pastor JW wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 05:17:49 pm Rashkae wrote:
>> But besides having to learn how the new system works, it's nothing but
>> win win for anyone making the change.  I've never seen any problems
>> reported with the use of UUID that doesn't amount to old school gurus
>> not wanting to learn something different.  (and possibly people using dd
>> to clone filesystems, inadvertently creating dupe UUID's... though I
>> haven't noticed anyone actually falling into that trap.)
> 
> So you haven't noticed it is impossible to hibernate your laptop using the
> uuid system?

I certainly haven't noticed that. I do it.   Generally at least twice daily.

> Other than this is the noise of several threads on this 
> maillist, I have about the same amount on four others.  The best advise is
> to not use hibernate or edit fstab to use the old system.  

No it's not.  That's an attempt to hide from the fact that you have some
other problem. The best advice is that which fixes the problem.

> Either way it is not
> the most excellent advise to give someone!  It is not win win if it is
> broken.  

It's NOT broken.  Every time we see something like this, it's somebody
making _assumptions_ that are invalid, and generally fixed by using the
system defaults.

> It needs fixed so the OS can see it has a swap partition or 
> hibernate will not work.  

The OS needs to be able to see its swap partition or _swap_ will not work...
-- 
derek