Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] fstab & UUID - sanity check
2009/7/17 Brian Chivers <brian@???>: > I'll explain I have a machine that I use to rsync stuff to with an external firewire drive & I just
> rebooted with it connected & / when from sda5 to sdb5 and the others map & this caused problems when
> I ran the autofs files as it talk to /dev/sdc1 for the first wire & this was now sda1 !!!
>
Surely this is precisely the argument _for_ using UUID and not old
style /dev/sda device names?
If you get the UUID of the external drive and plug that in your fstab,
the problem goes away.
