symlink persist follow-up

[Grizzly]

Saturday, September 23, 2023  at 11:16, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
Re: symlink persist follow-up (at least in part)

>On Sat, 2023-09-23 at 07:24 +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> sometimes the Win7 disk is just not there (usually after a 
>> few reboots)

>What do you mean? The hardware is stolen from Bigfood and brought back
>again and again? Even if Bigfood brought it back and reconnected it,
>then it is not recognized or it is recognized but is not sdb1?

>If the drive sometimes isn't recognized at all, then it might be that
>hardware is broken. If the drive sometimes isn't sdb1 it means
>absolutely nothing.

After a few reboots Win7 (sdb normally) is not there, i.e.
$blkid shows only sda (Lunar) & sdb (becomes Mantic), I don't think it is a 
Ubuntu problem, but an oddity of this Dell box, 

$shutdown now -r

just hangs at the Dell Screen, after that I have to cycle power to boot, then 
Win7 is missing