I tried learning that by-uuid scheme (in trying to fix my messed up fstab, which a hardcore slacker would normally do anyway) and the command "blkid" which gives the correct 'uuid' for each partition was hidden somewhere in the community docs!
Hehehe... It excites me though. On 4/10/07, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Mhac Janapin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just curious as to why they decided to use the SCSI emulation this > time. All my harddisks are named sda1 ... sda6. And not only that, > they even used /dev/disk/by-uuid to name my disks (which is counter > intuitive, albeit helpful at some levels). It's a peeve of mine as well, although I don't mind the /dev/sd?? notation (it's better in plan9 though, with the actual device is represented as a directory, /dev/sd??/, and all the partitions, ctl, and raw bits as files under that.) It appears the /dev/disk/by-uuid/ move is part of an effort to remove dependance on /etc/fstab and use libdevmapper (?) to discover the disks/partitions. A subtle consequence of this is my swap partition being listed twice in swapon -s, and I can't quite find why this is so. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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