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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2011-10-04, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:03:47PM -0700, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote |
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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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>> I assume that name clashes can be avoided by using hostname-label. My |
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>> question is... are there any circumstances where you can use UUIDs but |
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>> not labels, or visa versa? If so, I'd prefer to go with the more robust |
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>> option from day 1, rather than switch later. |
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> The only thing I came across was a mention that some filesystems (e.g. |
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> VFAT) don't support labels. Though all the "good" ones appear to. |
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VFAT supports labels. mkfs.vfat -n sets the label name at creation |
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time: there must be a way to change it later. |
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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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