Comments on: The Linux Chronicles – Installing a New Hard Drive http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/02/17/the-linux-chronicles-installing-a-new-hard-drive/ My little pothole on the information superhighway Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:48:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Rob Morgan http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/02/17/the-linux-chronicles-installing-a-new-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Rob Morgan Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:21:25 +0000 http://www.johndearmond.com/?p=796#comment-315 Just found neon-john by accident today. Tried his e-mail which didn't work. Once worked with him. Any info will be greatly appreciated. Just found neon-john by accident today. Tried his e-mail which didn’t work. Once worked with him. Any info will be greatly appreciated.

]]> By: Cliff http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/02/17/the-linux-chronicles-installing-a-new-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Cliff Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:04:35 +0000 http://www.johndearmond.com/?p=796#comment-278 Damn John ... you are definently getting into Linux. Good ... cuz I need HELP! (all caps, notice?) I've just thrown in the towell and gone back to BG's VirusWare. Frank Tabor and I are talking via email. Hey, when was the last time you came up for air, worked on sumptin else? Go camping? Fix a generator? Cook some Pig? Try to make a refrigerator fly? I'll be home soon, you need to plan some downtime, come to the Cave, have a nice cuppa tea or coffee and kick back and relax, then we'll have a "small" wine, and talk Linux, fishin', squirrels, rednecks, WOMEN! You know, the Important Stuff! Cj of Cj and M Damn John … you are definently getting into Linux. Good … cuz I need HELP! (all caps, notice?) I’ve just thrown in the towell and gone back to BG’s VirusWare. Frank Tabor and I are talking via email. Hey, when was the last time you came up for air, worked on sumptin else? Go camping? Fix a generator? Cook some Pig? Try to make a refrigerator fly? I’ll be home soon, you need to plan some downtime, come to the Cave, have a nice cuppa tea or coffee and kick back and relax, then we’ll have a “small” wine, and talk Linux, fishin’, squirrels, rednecks, WOMEN! You know, the Important Stuff! Cj of Cj and M

]]> By: Toby http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/02/17/the-linux-chronicles-installing-a-new-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Toby Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:32:13 +0000 http://www.johndearmond.com/?p=796#comment-273 I've always seen UUID defined as "universally unique ID" along the same lines as the GUID's (globally unique ID's) seen frequently in the Windows world. Randomly generated in a way that's supposed to make it essentially impossible that any other computer would ever generate the same ID. One big advantage to using them to identify drives and partitions is supposed to be that you can move drives around between different controller channels and device IDs and still have their contents get mounted in the right place in the filesystem. Whereas the "old" way of doing things would have stuff end up in the wrong place in that scenario. I’ve always seen UUID defined as “universally unique ID” along the same lines as the GUID’s (globally unique ID’s) seen frequently in the Windows world. Randomly generated in a way that’s supposed to make it essentially impossible that any other computer would ever generate the same ID.

One big advantage to using them to identify drives and partitions is supposed to be that you can move drives around between different controller channels and device IDs and still have their contents get mounted in the right place in the filesystem. Whereas the “old” way of doing things would have stuff end up in the wrong place in that scenario.

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