Option to use /dev values instead of UUID values

[Rei Shinozuka]

Here's a slightly tangential but related question about uuids

If I want to create a copy of my boot partition (/dev/sda6), my old way 
was to restore a partimage backup to an adjacent partition (/dev/sda5) 
and replace in /etc/fstab /dev/sda6 with /dev/sda5.  can i just do the 
same by looking up uuids with blkid and replacing the corresponding sda6 
uuid with the sda5 uuid from blkid?

thanks,

-rei



On 03/24/2010 11:12 AM, Rashkae wrote:
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> And still there's the big elephant in the room that gets overlooked by
> many Linux users who lovingly cherish and maintain old computers.  Back
> in the day, over 90% (number pulled from arse) computers had exactly 1
> hard drive controller, which could hand a maximum of 4 hard drives, and
> the method to reference those hard drives was fixed (primary and
> secondary master/slave).  Pretty simple to keep /dev notation in line.
> But now that's completely different. Most Mobos have at least 2 hard
> drive IO controllers, 3 or 4 buses, and the bios reference to each drive
> is completely fluid, and can often get changed with no notice.  Going
> back to /dev is just not an option, and making it one on install is just
> inviting a regression in terms of support and ease of use.
>
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