Re: CentOS for non-tech user

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>> I there are too many updates, and sometimes they crash something. I
>> remember while using Fedora 10, after disappointment with F9, after an
>> update, the sound stopped to work. I didn't like the idea of Thunderbird
>> beta in F 12. Also, the external drives are mounted using the uuid(?)
>> name, so instead of /media/disk, appears something like
>> /media/88299233ddd22, which breaks my backup/recover script. And a few
>> other thinks. My general option was that the experience wasn't good, or
>> put in another way, Ubuntu works better.
> 
> Uuid doesn't look like something I'd like to see anywhere soon on my
> systems... I'll look into that though. I'd like to know the point with it.

What happens when you mount 2 otherwise identical disks/filesystems?  As might 
happen if you take a disk from a default install and mount it into another 
similar system?  I haven't tried with a recent fedora version, but I'd guess it 
still won't work if you have the default LVM volume id from an install - they've 
gotten this wrong with every label/id approach so far.

Even people who are 'no-tech' types as far as Linux goes may want to swap drives 
around and copy some old data or at least look at the contents before reusing a 
drive.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx

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