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Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

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Hi, All -

My brother has been issuing "mount /dev/sdb1" prior to backing up some
files to a second hard disk.  He lately upgraded to 'testing', and it
appears (from result of running df) that what the system now calls
/dev/sdb1 is what he has thought of as /dev/sda1, the system '/'
partition.

Thanks to the UUID= mechanism, his system still boots properly, but 'mount
/dev/sdb1' is inappropriate now, could even be the path to madness. :)

Two questions, then: (1) What caused this shift of device naming? And (2)
How do we fix it?  Is this something that can be changed in the BIOS? 
But, if so, what caused it to change in the first place?

Thanks for your time and attenton.

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Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? "hobie of RMN" <hobie@rumormillnews.com> - 2020-08-18 01:50 +0200
  Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-18 03:30 +0200
    Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? "hobie of RMN" <hobie@rumormillnews.com> - 2020-08-18 06:10 +0200
      Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-08-18 08:40 +0200
        Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-08-18 10:30 +0200
          Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-08-18 11:40 +0200
            Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-08-18 12:20 +0200
          Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-08-18 11:40 +0200
      Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-18 12:10 +0200
  Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-08-18 10:40 +0200
    Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2020-08-18 20:40 +0200
      Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-18 22:00 +0200
        Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2020-08-19 08:10 +0200
          Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-19 10:40 +0200
            Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2020-08-19 12:10 +0200
              Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-19 23:50 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-20 09:50 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-08-20 12:20 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-08-20 17:40 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-20 22:40 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-08-20 23:40 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-08-21 00:00 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-08-21 11:50 +0200
                Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-08-21 10:40 +0200
      Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...? Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2020-08-19 09:00 +0200

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