UUIDs in fstab
Scott Robbins
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Wed Apr 30 04:58:04 UTC 2008
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:35:41AM -0400, Christopher L Tubbs II wrote:
> Has anybody noticed that F9-pre installer creates an /etc/fstab file based on
> UUIDs instead of LABELs? I seem to remember everybody all worked up about
> LABELs instead of the traditional /dev/sda2 type identifiers, in order to
> simplify changes to hard drive configuration. But now, all of a sudden I've got
> this 32-character long UUID that makes everything complicated again.
>
This was discussed awhile back on the list. Take a quick look through
the archives--probably last month.
There are reasons for it. Whether they're really good reasons or not is
beyond my knowledge, so I made no comments.
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