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Re:Edgy Eft "UUID's" in fstab

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 05, 2006 05:24 AM

My uninformed guess is that the UUIDs are useful if you want to boot off of a USB HD or some other device which may have a changing<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/dev/ name.

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