Re: [PLUG] mounting filesystems.

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:34:56PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> The benefit of uuid in fstab is that if you move drives during adding or
> removing drives they will continue to obey the previously defined mount
> points even if they change from, say, sdb to sda.

or in a kernel upgrade where the order of probing devices changed, or the
devince naming scheme changed, which would otherwise be a major pain.

	sean

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