On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:49:21 +0100 Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Friday 16 September 2011 23:13:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > A word of advice when starting from scratch, give your VG(s) unique > > names. I've seen what happens when someone takes a drive from > > one Fedora system and puts it in another, so there are two VGs > > called vg01. It ain't nice (only one is seen, usually not the one > > you want). > > That would be nasty, yes, but here at home I don't expect to be > switching disks around between machines. > > I did give a bit of thought to a VG naming scheme, but although > several ideas came up, nothing was clearly the best so I left them at > vg1 and vg2. > This is what GUIDs are for. They are not the best thing to work with admittedly, but they are guaranteed to be unique for all reasonable human needs. In a world when we plug things out of anything and plug them back into anything, a guaranteed unique ID is a necessaity. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
