On 20100731_225121, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > It is grub2.  I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the
> > UUID is that of the root partition.  I ran update-grub just to be sure
> > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by grub.  The output of
> > df -h is still the same mixed up mess.
> 
> Device names are not stable (not changing), only UUIDs and LABELs are.

UUID is not entirely stable. If during a new install you choose to have
a partition re-initialized, the partitioning software also writes a new,
different UUID into its superblock. For a label, you have the option of
giving the same value as it had before.


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Paul E Condon           
pecon...@mesanetworks.net


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