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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards |
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>> After a bit more googling, it looks like this is what disk labels are |
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>> for. Never used them before, but it looks like it's time to give them |
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>> a go. |
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> They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and |
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> therefore can be human readable. Also, if you use a desktop |
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> environment, they look nice in file managers. |
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AFAIK that benefit of labels can also be a danger. If you have |
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multiple systems and use the same label naming scheme on all of them |
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(for example you call your partitions "root" "home" "swap" etc.) and |
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someday you plug the HDD from one system into the other, it could |
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cause confusion by potentially choosing the wrong one. But someone can |
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correct me if I'm wrong. :) |
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