On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:02:45 +0100 Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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). > Well, if you are completely confident you can deal with anything that comes up, you should just continue doing what you've always done. That's part of good sysadmining. I express my own paranoia in a different way :-) -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
