Option to use /dev values instead of UUID values

[Rashkae]

Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> Here's a slightly tangential but related question about uuids
> 
> If I want to create a copy of my boot partition (/dev/sda6), my old way 
> was to restore a partimage backup to an adjacent partition (/dev/sda5) 
> and replace in /etc/fstab /dev/sda6 with /dev/sda5.  can i just do the 
> same by looking up uuids with blkid and replacing the corresponding sda6 
> uuid with the sda5 uuid from blkid?

Yes