[NCLUG] disk drive partition designation

[Ben West]

technically, you can smoth all this out by locating the drives/partitions by
label as was once done in redhat 7.2.... ages ago.  At the very least, it
WILL work in fstab -- I use it for my memory sticks, mostly, but it DOES
work work for hdd's.

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Brian Wood <bwood at beww.org> wrote:

> William Greger wrote:
> > Brian,
> >
> >   Thanks for your response.  I always like to understand the reason
> behind what's going on.
> >
> > Bill Greger
> >
>
> Yeah, the change has caused some problems, especially for people
> updating from earlier versions of Ubuntu.
>
> In particular it seems grub was not getting updated properly to reflect
> the new drive name(s). Also /etc/fstab was not getting properly updated.
>
> This is an example of how the kernel developers are, in my opinion, not
> thinking of the problems they cause for users.
>
> I liked the old days when we had separate kernel trees for development
> and mainstream use. If you wanted to be on the bleeding edge you used an
> odd series kernel, if you wanted stability you stuck with an even series
> one.
>
> Linus says he likes the present system, where the developers whack away
> on the same tree as the stable users. Linus says this makes kernel
> development "smoother". I'm sure this is true, but I'm also sure it
> would be even smoother if all of us pesky users switched to Windows.
>
> Using the same basic designators for SCSI, IDE, USB and F/W is confusing
> IMHO, leading to an increased possibility of wiping out a hard drive
> when you thought you were just erasing a thumb drive.
>
> Oh well, probably we should be using drive labels in any case. The way
> drives are labeled in Linux has always been a problem, with drive
> designations changing any time you add or remove a drive. Those of us
> with Solaris backgrounds really go crazy over that :-)
>
> beww
>
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