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SubjectRe: Device naming???
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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