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On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Paul Hartman 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. |
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You can set the UUIDs yourself too, but I think they have to stick to the |
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standard format. |
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> 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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If you have multiple systems, the sensible approach it to give each |
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filesystem a unique label, such as hostname-mountpoint, which also has |
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the benefit of making it clear which box a drive came from when you get |
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them mixed up. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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This is as bad as it can get-but don't bet on it. |
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