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Why do this? Well....
Authored by: Numbski on Mar 04, '03 04:25:39PM

I can see one good use already. :P

Let's say I've got a pocket usb drive, or even a firewire drive that I wanted to mount into my home directory when I'm logged in. I could now do this by UUID, and as my use of the drive changed (say it was named MP3 at one point, then I started using it for OGG instead) I could rename the drive as I saw fit, and it would still into the correct location on my machine, but show up with a useful name on anyone else's.

Very slick indeed.



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