UUID device versus /dev
 

Hi,

What are the advantages by using
drives are now identified by UUID
over than /dev/xxx;

thanks
bela

The UUID is unique to a partition and won't change if you would add a disk.
As an example, say you mount /home from sda4, then you add a disk as hd0 and /home becomes sdb4. With UUID in fstab you don't have to change fstab, with sda4 in there your /home won't get mounted before you change fstab.