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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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You are right. But a) if you are swaping harddrives around, you better |
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know what you are doing, and b) nothing "terrible" happens, I believe |
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the first (or last) detected drive with a label in fstab will be |
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mounted. The other one will still be available by UUID and /dev |
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device. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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