Re: Interesting recovery frustrations

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:54:04 +0800, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nothing is persistent as far as any of this goes - UUIDs change when a
drive is reformatted or the user changes it. Labels change when a
drive is reformatted or the user changes it. Device names change when
they change, although short of repartitioning or physically moving the
drive connectors, they tend to be slightly more persistent than either
the UUID or the label.

Device names change whenever the BIOS boots, that's *everytime* you start
your computer. If you have more than one hard drive and many thumb drives,
you can easily see that. Just remove one or more thumb drives and restart,
you'll see the device names change. Sometimes they change without you
doing anything.

http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/05/ubuntu-uuid-how-to/
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146951
to list just 2.

So I don't see that as being more persistent than UUID or LABEL. This list
is referred to by others and is searched when googled, so I hope we can
provide correct information and if we are not too sure, we should state so.

So what? I like my method. You like yours. Doesn't mean anyone else
has to use either one.

While it's true that you can always follow your own way, regardless of any
merit or lack of it, it is always bad advise and unethical if it is
followed by wrong information. I have said before I don't dislike Karl
because he's not a deliberately bad person, but the wrong information he
provides on a technical list like this cannot allowed, and I hope it will
not be repeated. Whenever someone provides wrong information, someone else
has to correct it and that's ...tiresome.

Regards - Goh Lip



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