Option to use /dev values instead of UUID values

[Lou Katz]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:21:44AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> Once my former /home became /tmp after adding a new CD drive, and /tmp
> >> was cleaned at boot time. I was wondering why booting took so long...
> >
> > That is the best cautionary tale ever.
> 
> I am trying to see how this would happen. Maybe like this:
> * Before CDROM install:
> ---- hda1 /
> ---- hdb1 /home
> ---- hdc1 /tmp
> 
> * After CDROM install:
> ---- hda1 CDROM
> ---- hdb1 /
> ---- hdc1 /home
> ---- hdd1 /tmp
> 
> However, fstab still had hdc1 configured as /tmp. Is this what happened? Wow!
> 
> 
> > Anyone pining for the old /dev
> > days needs to read that over and over again until it really sinks in.
> >
> 
> I am not pining for the old /dev days. I just want an option in the
> installer to use that for the use cases where it makes sense.
> 
> 
> However, I asked here to see if there are other people who are
> interested in this feature. Nobody else seems to be, so I suppose that
> is the end of it! I have no problem with the feature not being
> implemented if there is only one lonely user who desires it, and an
> easy workaround exists!

I am interested. Installs on a machine with multiple OSs in different partitions
often puts the UUID for the wrong partition into fstab, forcing me to boot
from a rescue disk and hand edit stuff. Refusing to have the option strikes me as
stubborness - as a documented but not very visible feature would help a lot.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Dotan Cohen
> 
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