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  1. Bug #425421
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 425421

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 425421] [NEW] Partition counting should use the same method as device counting

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:06:44PM -0000, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> In other words, we (as in Debian maintainers and GNU
> developers/maintainers) won't change this again.
> I strongly hope and believe Ubuntu won't divert from us in this point.

Indeed we won't.

As for drive numbering, it's generally best for users to avoid having to
interact with GRUB's internal drive numbers at all wherever possible.
UUIDs are a step towards this, although there's still more to do.