I found that not using UUID caused headaches, as the PC, when booting up, recognised the drives in a different order each time (using SATA drives, and for a while some IDE drives too).
So I think that using UUID is essential for all internal drives. I have found it best for USB drives to not be mounted from fstab, but instead I use a script to mount them on the mountpoints I choose. David King Daniel Drummond wrote: > Josh Holland wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote: >> >> >>> The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI card's >>> drives become SDA and SDB and the Mobo's drives follow from there. So a >>> bit of twiddling with FSTAB is required on existing installation. >>> >>> >> Isn't this what UUIDs in /etc/fstab are for? >> >> >> > Some people don't use UUIDs. I removed them from my /etc/fstab, and > stopped them being generated in the boot sequence. Shaved a few seconds > off my boot time, as some of the processes were waiting on them being > available. > > Dan > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/