Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[Adam Funk <a.funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[03/05/07 11:33] Alex Hudson wrote:

> If you base device naming on the order in which you come across devices,
> which is the only method that really works, if anything means that order
> changes (docking station in the example above, but could simply be the
> hardware doesn't always go from "power on" to "ready" in the exact same
> amount of time) then the name ends up changing. 
> 
> So, you have to live with the fact that device names aren't stable. For
> example, in my fstab I have:
> 
> 	LABEL=/         /                 ext3    defaults        1 1
> 
> If I had /dev/hda1 instead of LABEL=/, my laptop wouldn't boot every
> time I dock it, because my internal hard drive becomes /dev/hde in that
> scenario :)

What distribution is that?

I'm just curious because I noticed that the upgrade from Ubuntu Dapper
to Edgy changed my fstab in a somewhat similar way (using UUIDs instead
of LABELs).

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