Booting order / SATA onboard / IDE card

[Eric Battersby]

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> The order of drives at boot is up to the BIOS.  Now once linux loads
> different issues occour.  The only sane thing to do in linux is to
> use UUID (or LABEL) to refer to drives when mounting.  UUID is by far
> preferable.  Most distributions do this by default on new installs these
> days (at least I believe Fedora does it and I know Debian does).

Len,

Why do you say that UUID is by far preferable (to LABEL)?


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