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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote: |
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> >> Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also |
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> >> had to fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, |
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> >> wound up having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) |
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> >> Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs. |
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> >> They have the advantage that I don't have to change fstab when I |
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> >> must replace a disk. |
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> >> -- |
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> >> Regards |
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> >> wabe |
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> >> Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can |
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> >> change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is |
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> >> that they are human-readable. |
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> > Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable. |
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> > Labels are human *understandable* |
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> Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue |
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> what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the |
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> home partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully |
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> confuse someone I guess. :/ With UUIDs, who knows what is what |
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> there. |
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That's also an advantage of labels. It's the same thing with domainnames |
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and IP addresses. For most people, words are easier to remember than |
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numbers. Of course this depends on the words which are used. An URL like |
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http://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is |
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is probably harder to remember than the belonging IP address. At least |
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for non Icelanders. :-) |
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Regards |
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