Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 04:52:45 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Device naming??? |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 12:17:35PM +1000, Dancer wrote:
> Where's the UUID stored? On the drive? Wouldn't this cause problems with > systems involving hot-swap drives? (Ie: If a scratch drive fails (as > many have), and I go 'eek!', swap it and reboot, the drive UUID would be > different and I'd also have to edit the fstab, right?)
You might do, yes, I don't know. But it solves the major, disasterous problem of the system succeeding to mount an incorrect drive and doing something horrid to it.
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