Alex Launi on 8 Dec 2007 22:33:23 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu & Drive Order

  • From: "Alex Launi" <alex.launi@gmail.com>
  • To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu & Drive Order
  • Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 17:30:46 -0500
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On Dec 8, 2007 5:13 PM, Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:

Do yourself a favour and use UUIDs to identify your drives instead of device
nodes.  It makes it much the system much more robust in the face of changing
hardware or drivers.

Ubuntu should do this by default. OP should be fine for adding/removing drives. To get a drive's UUID,
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
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