Booting order / SATA onboard / IDE card

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 05:37:32PM -0400, Eric Battersby wrote:
> 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)?

Because it is quite likely to have a usb drive plugged in some day with
the same LABEL as one of your internal drives.  With UUID this just
won't happen.  So LABEL collisions are likely, UUID collisions are not.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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