[Linux-users] Mini rant: sda vs hda

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Friday 31 August 2007, Sean Keating wrote:
> The problem will be apparent when you try to plug in an external, USB
> device (like a USB hard drive.)  It will also be an "sb" device and will
> not unmount easily. Some devices work fine, others don't.  I use Feisty,
> and I like it a lot, but it took me a while to figure this one out.
>
> Also, let me warn you.  Notice that in fstab your drive is mounted by
> its UUID not its device. (This probably has something to do with why its
> sda instead of hda.)  I use gparted to periodically duplicate my drive
> to an external USB drive as a backup.  If I forget to assign it a new
> UUID and plug it in, it hides my actual drive.

My complaint there is when you start slicing and dicing your USB disk (a la 
fdisk and mkfs, or worse, shred) and figure out that you've just toasted your 
primary drive.

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