Comment 1 for bug 224171

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

The question becomes how did those hard disk IDs end up as /dev/hd* ? Did a tool automatically put them in? Ubuntu has defaulted (and switched during the upgrade to Edgy) device IDs to UUIDs (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID ). Non label/UUID references can and will break and so should be avoided unless the user is willing (and able) to fix them up...