On Saturday 17 September 2011 13:44:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > [GUIDs] 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.
As I said, I do not expect to move hard disks around willy-nilly in my boxes, so it certainly isn't a necessity - I don't have an armada of hundreds of boxes here. And I still haven't seen a compelling reason not to quote, e.g., /dev/sda3 in fstab. I know where my partitions are and I want to continue to know that. Call it control-freakery if you like, but it's at the core of sys-admin (if I may say that to you, Alan). -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
