On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:00 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote:
>> > I am sure someone will correct me if I have got this wrong, so if >> > noone does so I have probably remembered correctly. >> >> I don't remember a thread on debian-user about UUIDs changing with >> changing hardware (I could be wrong though!) but there was a thread in >> March on ubuntu-users where a guy was duplicating disks for a rollout >> and he was convinced that the BIOS of the boxes into which he was >> plugging in the duplicated HDs was changing the UUIDs of the disks' >> partitions because he was unable to boot from those disks unless he >> changed the fstab to use /dev/sdaX devices. I pointed out that the idea >> that a BIOS could change a filesystem's superblock didn't make any >> sense and that it could not be a UUID problem because he could boot >> boxes with Intel mobos but not boxes with another manufacturer's mobos >> (I assume that he could have replied that the other mobos were changing >> the UUIDs and the Intels ones not...). > > Thanks, Tom - I may be getting confused with that. No, Lisi, you are right. Here is the thread: *** question about fstab in squeeze and uuid http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/03/msg01026.html *** But using "labels" can lead to another problems. I'm afraid there is no "one size fits all" here :-/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.05.11.13.47...@gmail.com