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Re: [Sheflug] printer help

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:23 +0000, Dean Sas wrote:
> It's supposed to make things more robust when you change your disks 
> around.  Device names can change if you change your partioning scheme or 
> add new drives for example. UUIDs don't.

Worse than that, device names can change if you e.g. boot your laptop on
a dock as opposed to not on a dock.

Modern hardware can get enumerated in a variety of ways, and you don't
need to do much now for device names to change.

UUIDs are definitely the way forward.

Cheers,

Alex.


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