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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-10-04, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:03:47PM -0700, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s 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.
>
>   I assume that name clashes can be avoided by using hostname-label.  My
> question is... are there any circumstances where you can use UUIDs but
> not labels, or visa versa?  If so, I'd prefer to go with the more robust
> option from day 1, rather than switch later.

The only thing I came across was a mention that some filesystems (e.g.
VFAT) don't support labels.  Though all the "good" ones appear to.

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