On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 21:50 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Craig White wrote: > > > second, there are many good reasons to use uuid in references in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf and some of them are listed here... > > http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146951 > > I read the article. I'd read something similar before. > Neither explained the superiority of > UUIDs over labels in a small system. > One of the responders prefered labels, not device nodes. ---- what part of unambiguous do you not understand? get a terminal and type the command 'blkid' you will get a list of devices with their UUID the UUID does not change unless you reformat. ---- > > > this author glosses over the most obvious reason...that an install with Fedora 9 & 11 will leave you with 2 /boot partitions and probably 2 / partitions. > > With two installs, I'd better have two / partitions. > They happen to be on separate disks. > IIRC their labels are ide-slash and sata-slash . ---- It's your system - do what you will. ftr, both ide and sata will appear as a SCSI device to a current Linux kernel ---- > Thanks. > > Until you suggested it, I would not have thought > of using bind instead of a symbolic link. > Is bind usually superior a symbolic link > or is my situation somehow special? ---- already answered in my first answer Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
