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Device ID is not recommended for mounting partitions in Linux systems, and the corresponding directories are:

/ dev/disk/by-id/*

The reasons are as follows:

This value can change in some cases, and if there is a relevant add-on in fstab, it will cause the system to fail to boot.

Examples of corresponding failure scenarios:

Example 1:

Boot the virtual machine with the newly exported OVA file on virtualbox, boot time error, unable to find disk startup failed.

The disk is the same, there will be a different disk ID.

Waiting for device dev/disk/by-id/ata-...-part2 to appear problem solving

Example 2:

Disk failure. After reconfiguring RAID, the disk device ID changes, resulting in failure to boot the system using by-id.

How to deal with the problem that the UVP system cannot be started due to the change of the system disk by-id number

Example 3:

Https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3580082

Device device ID is not recommended. Device ID is unique, and there will be problems in specific scenarios.

The / dev/disk/by-name path is deprecated in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 package and is not recommended.

Https://www.suse.com/zh-cn/documentation/sles11/stor_admin/data/bndgyoe.html#bin8klb

UUID is recommended.

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