On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:28:08PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Since you mentioned it, what's they point to using these ugly, looong > uuids? /dev/hda2 is so much simpler and easier to read for mere humans. Try updating a system using, say, the piix driver for the harddisk to the new libata drivers (ata_piix). /dev/hda2 will (probably) become /dev/sda2, but it depends on many factors. The UUID or a label will stay the same, though. Best regards, Stefan -- Stefan Seyfried QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out."