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Re: SlugOS 5.3, Memstick & HDD -- device name confusion (sda / sdb)

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Thanks Mike -- this is brilliant, true plug & play so to speak :)

There's another question I have on SlugOS 5.3, but I'll create a new post as it's for a different subject.

Thanks!
Jan

--- In nslu2-linux@..., "Mike Westerhof (mwester)" <mwester@...> wrote:
> Isn't it nice when things "just work"?  :-)  SlugOS does not store the
> /dev/sd* device name for use during the boot process.  What really
> happens when you do "turnup /dev/sda1" is that the turnup utility looks
> up the UUID for that partition, and sets up the boot process to use that
> UUID.  This avoids any problems caused by the device names moving about
> for USB devices.



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