UUID question

[Derek Broughton]

Jay Ridgley wrote:

> 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.
... 
> 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?

Here we go again...

Of course you can change back to old fashioned names - but why would you
expect this to continue to work?  Your devices have changed names before,
and they'll likely change again.  You're _much_ safer to use the UUIDs. 
And sure you can create an entry for the SCSI CD.
-- 
derek