UUID question

[Jay Ridgley]

Folks,

I have two partitions that have UUIDs assigned that were assigned during 
the upgrade to edgy, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5, the first is mounted as / 
and the second one as swap. The names have changed due to the SCSI 
controller being assigned /dev/sda since sudo fdisk -l shows them as 
/dev/sdb1 and  /dev/sdb5.

I also have  three others  that do not,  /dev/hdd,  /dev/sdc1 and  
/dev/sdc2,  these are mounted as /media/cdrom, /home and /archive 
respectively.

It appears that my scsi cdrom /dev/scd1 is not included in /etc/fstab, 
however, the other cdrom is included as /dev/hdd with a mount point of 
/media/cdrom0.

My question is are the UUIDs required or can I change them back to the 
"old fashioned" names (/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb5) that I have used for 
years with  Linux and various other UNIX systems? Can I safely create an 
entry in /etc/fstab for the SCSI CDROM?

Cheers,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
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