On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:07:16PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Scott Robbins wrote: > > >There are reasons for it. Whether they're really good reasons or not is > >beyond my knowledge, so I made no comments. > > > I don't much liked UUIDs either (I had problems duplicating disks when RH > introduced labels) and UUIDs don't solve the problems I had. And they may > introduce new problems: try cloning a disk thus: Usually what I do is just use fdisk in advance, then redo fstab after installation, going back to using /dev/sda etc. One reason I began doing this is because at one point, I was playing with Ubuntu. It was already using UUID, and to make it worse, insisted upon formatting swap during installation. So, next time I booted into Fedora, swap wasn't seen. I would then have do swapoff -a; mkswap -L and whatever was there, SWAP=/dev/sdc or whatever I had in fstab, swapon -a. (The sequence might be wrong, this was awhile ago. ) After rebooting Ubuntu, *it* no longer had swap. On the other hand, sharing multiple distros in the old days, when everyone used the simple naming system, never gave me a problem. It's one of those choices that more user friendly systems are gradually taking away. My own preference has always been for the very simple cfdisk, which unfortunately, isn't included with Fedora. fdisk is also good, but cfdisk has the added advantage of being able to toggle size units, and for me at least, it's far simpler to figure out gigs or megs than it is to figure out block sizes. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Anya: I have witnessed a millennium of treachery and oppression from the males of the species, and I have nothing but contempt for the whole libidinous lot of them. Xander: Then why are you talking to me? Anya: I don't have a date for the prom. Xander: Well, gosh, I wonder why not? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with your sales pitch. Anya: Men are evil. Will you go with me? -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
