Those long strings aren't from Ubuntu. Redhat and all the others use
them as well... They allow you to rearrange the physical drives in your
system and not have issues booting the system back up. Like if you add a
new drive and didn't pay attention to slave/master on IDE, or which SATA
port each drive was connected to.
> I don't know why Ubuntu uses those long text strings instead of
> /dev/whatever, but /dev/sda6 /home still works.
>
> On 01/05/2013 01:20 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>> What is the procedure to add my previous /home partition that was on
>> /dev/sda6 (I think)
>> to fstab to replace the /home directory that was installed on /dev/sda1
>> as shown below during the new installation of kubuntu 12.10 that I just did?
>>
>> $ cat /etc/fstab
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>> UUID=23163f08-bdf2-4303-bdd7-61cf267a2ade / ext4
>> errors=remount-ro 0 1
>> # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>> UUID=c0c7f1be-ff0f-4f18-a86d-a98bd91d0e62 none swap sw
>> 0 0
>>
>> $ df
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1 12396968 3375776 8391448 29% /
>> udev 469488 4 469484 1% /dev
>> tmpfs 192240 784 191456 1% /run
>> none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
>> none 480592 80 480512 1% /run/shm
>> none 102400 8 102392 1% /run/user
>>
>>
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