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 at 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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: And they say that young people don't learn anything in high school nowadays, but I've learned to be afraid.