Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 84.202.157.247]
on September 14, 2008 11:07 AM
UUIDs creates huge mess and extra work.
I quite often need to install new versions of OpenSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu to test our software. So I have 5 - 6 LInux-partitions to keep track of. Each time I install a new distro it re-formats the partition and formating creates a new UUID. It can be very annoying because I have to manually change /etc/fstab in every Linux-distro. I want to access every partition though /etc/fstab. So it's much better to use /dev/sdXX name instead of volatile UUID. /dev/sdXX name practically never changes.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 84.202.157.247] on September 14, 2008 11:07 AMI quite often need to install new versions of OpenSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu to test our software. So I have 5 - 6 LInux-partitions to keep track of. Each time I install a new distro it re-formats the partition and formating creates a new UUID. It can be very annoying because I have to manually change /etc/fstab in every Linux-distro. I want to access every partition though /etc/fstab. So it's much better to use /dev/sdXX name instead of volatile UUID. /dev/sdXX name practically never changes.
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