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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 had to |
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>> fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up |
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>> 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. They have |
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>> the advantage that I don't have to change fstab when I must replace |
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>> 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 that |
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>> 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 home |
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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 there. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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