Nigel Cunningham wrote: > >> But this engineer should also know if he depends on the UUID of the swap >> partition to find it. If he does not, he can simply do a "mkswap" to reset >> the signature. > > 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. > I guess it might be useful for USB and so on with the hotplug messiness, > but when I look in /etc/fstab after some upgrade and stuff that's > irrelevant to hotplugging is changed into uuids,... why? /dev/hda2 may move if they move the disk.. I think the preferred way (since it seems fairly hard to 'fix' a disk in the /dev tree under Linux, not so easy as - say - FreeBSD or NetBSD) is to mount disks from disk labels these days (ext2 and xfs supports it at least) as then you can move the disk around. USB, Firewire, external SATA disks will fall under this trap, but perhaps not internal IDE.. however you can't have both ways :D -- Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
