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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:10:26
Message-Id: 20110209200838.2f6efac2@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook by James
1 On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:51:46 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
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3 > These aren't needed to get a system up and running. Yeah, Ubuntu uses
4 > them for various ID purposes, but nothing really critical. Unless
5 > there's a clear need for them, for example if some package in the
6 > @system set will use them in a way that our users will see, I doubt
7 > the handbook needs to cover them. Adding labels using udev just seems
8 > very finicky and time-consuming, and doesn't seem like it would be of
9 > much utility when users are already swamped with everything else the
10 > handbook asks them to do.
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13 Josh seems to be referring to UUID type disk labels, not filesystem
14 labels. Which are you talking about?

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