[PLUG] Kernel changes external hard drive designation

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Oct 21 15:10:33 UTC 2019


On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote:

> In one of the weekend posts you learned how to obtain disk and partition
> uuid - is there any technical reason to not use uuid to mount your external
> drive?

No. That's why I use it.

> Uuids definitely do not change unless you change it intentionally.

True, but the device assigned by the kernel does.

> Someone, somewhere famously said - Those who cannot learn from history are
> doomed to repeat it.

True.

Rich



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