David King wrote: > > > 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 >> >> >> > > 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). >
Sounds like something is wrong if your system isn't consistent in it's drive naming. This should only happen if you are adding or removing drives. between boots. Never been a problem for me. > 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 > > UUID's are like Marmite (you either love it or hate it). Shaving 3 seconds off the boot time was well worth it. Jaunty was booting in 13 seconds :-) Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/