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On 19/09/2015 21:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, Alan McKinnon |
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> <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote: |
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> Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to |
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> fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up |
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> having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) |
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> Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs. They have |
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> the advantage that I don't have to change fstab when I must replace |
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> a disk. |
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> Regards |
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> wabe |
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> Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can |
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> change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that |
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> they are human-readable. |
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> Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable. |
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> Labels are human *understandable* |
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> That's like saying you can read French because you know the letters even |
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> if you know nothing of the language :P |
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Ah, but UUIDs have no intrinsic semantic meaning, they are just huge |
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chunks of guaranteed-unique text. Much like French come to think of it... |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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