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

[Dale]

Walter Dnes 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.
>

 From what I know, they both seem to travel well.  If you remove a drive 
and take it to another system, the UUID and LABELS will go with it.  
LABELS can be shorter and easier on the human to read tho.  I see that 
as a positive that UUID doesn't have.

Dale

:-)  :-)