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I might chime in, that I once deleted an important 90 GB partition by |
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mistake, when a Ubuntu install had shuffled drive assignments. Ubuntu had |
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assigned the formerly /dev/hda1 to /dev/sda1, and former /dev/sda1 to |
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/dev/sda2. |
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Ubuntu used UUIDs. That is an approach that works, once I learned how to |
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use it, although Ubuntu itself set up grub with a different partition |
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assigned as "/", so I had to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf or its equivalent to |
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even boot the system. Trouble is, who can read UUIDs? I soon abandoned |
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Ubuntu, went back to Gentoo, in great measure because I trusted drive |
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assignments. However, it has been pointed out that this is a kernel level |
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issue, and there's nothing a mere user can do about it. |
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Again, I was also told, "this is a feature not a bug." And I totally agree |
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that anything that makes a system more confusing to set up is NOT a |
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feature. |
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Labels (I used gparted to define labels) allowed me to assign partitions in |
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a more friendly way. As a convenient side effect, when I have some 15 |
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partitions, it makes it easier to remember which is which. |
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