Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
>> They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and
>> therefore can be human readable. Also, if you use a desktop
>> environment, they look nice in file managers.
>
> AFAIK that benefit of labels can also be a danger. If you have
> multiple systems and use the same label naming scheme on all of them
> (for example you call your partitions "root" "home" "swap" etc.) and
> someday you plug the HDD from one system into the other, it could
> cause confusion by potentially choosing the wrong one. But someone can
> correct me if I'm wrong. :)

I think we had that conversation one or two weeks ago, in the context
of lvm volume names.

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