On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:22:44PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:05:41PM -0500, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:09 PM, compdoc compdoc@hotrodpc.com wrote:
In Ubuntu and Fedora, UUID's the default replacement of "/dev/sdXY" devices, but md and lvm devices are referred to in more "traditional" fstab stanzas.
Possibly worth mentioning that it does sometimes break--at least in Fedora, I can think of a few times it's happened to me, and a few more times where it's happened on their forums, where an update would then fail to boot, saying, unable to locate root (or something similar) which could be fixed by changing the UUID to /dev/sdwhatever
To reply to my own email, I should add that I don't want to spread FUD. Most of the time UUID works as it should, and can be handy for things such as installing from a USB, where the system thinks the USB is /dev/sda. I just wanted to point out that on VERY RARE occasions, it has failed to work.