Option to use /dev values instead of UUID values

[Karl Larsen]

On 03/15/2010 01:03 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 15 March 2010 20:14, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>  wrote:
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>> On Mon, March 15, 2010 18:23, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>>>> It would be helpful if you gave your reasons for wanting this feature.
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>>> I often have several bootable partitions, and if I have to edit fstab
>>> by hand it is easier if the /dev values are used.
>>>        
>> What is your definition of "easier"?
>> * that you don't need an external program to lookup the relation between
>> UUID and device?
>> * that a UUID is longer and harder to remember?
>>      
> Yes, those two. A UUID is not hard to remember. It is impossible.
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>> * something else?
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> If I have to write them down (sometimes I do) I can do that easily
> with /dev notation. Not so with UUID.
>
>    
         Yes! Whoever invented the UUID should be ashamed! I realize 
that the UUID is supposed to correct when you remove a partition but who 
does this ever or at all? As for using the simple /dev/sda3 like, I do 
that for all the things I put in fstab.

73 Karl