UUIDs on drives (was Hibernate on batery low)

[Kennneth P. Turvey]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:27:39 +1000, Res wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:
> 
>>> BS.  read ubuntuforums lately? even second person has problems geting
>>> it to work, if you really want it to work, dump ubuntus version and
>>> use the UPSTREAMS, it works fine.
>>
>> Apparently this isn't a problem right now.  I can't hibernate at all
>> now.  The only issue I can think of that might of caused this problem
>> is that I resized some of the partitions on my hard drive the the UID
>> of the swap partition has changed.  Now it doesn't restart from
>> hibernation (which seems to work fine), but goes back to the login
>> screen.
> 
> does " free " show you have a swap ?
> 
> (I hate how they use these uid labels, it seems to have created problems
> for a few people from reading ubuntuforums, and in here, refer the rsync
> thread from hrmm, 6 weeks ago(?), most other distros get along fine
> without crap like this (maybe im just too old school, and old... I dunno
> <G> )

I prefer the old method too.  I think the problem is that many people use 
external drives now and the devices will change, so UUIDs solve the 
problem.  

Is this the correct reasoning?  I'm just guessing here.  Are there any 
other advantages to using UUIDs that I'm missing?  

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