Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

[Derek Broughton]

Avi Greenbury wrote:

> Rashkae wrote:
>>
>> You should really switch to the new way of doing things. It's only a
>> matter of time before /dev becomes even more unusable than it already
>> is.  If you want to be more human readable, you can use LABEL instead of
>> UUID, but then, you become solely responsible to make sure you don't
>> accidentally create duplicates.
>> 
> 
> For usb drives and the like, I like (and use) UUID.
> For devices for which I know the /dev address, I use /dev.

The problem is, you don't "know" the /dev address.  You know it today, but
there's no guarantee that changes made by either you (eg, deleting an
unused partition) or a kernel update won't change that address in future.
-- 
derek