On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards >> After a bit more googling, it looks like this is what disk labels are >> for. Never used them before, but it looks like it's time to give them >> a go. > > They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and > therefore can be human readable. Also, if you use a desktop > environment, they look nice in file managers.
AFAIK that benefit of labels can also be a danger. If you have multiple systems and use the same label naming scheme on all of them (for example you call your partitions "root" "home" "swap" etc.) and someday you plug the HDD from one system into the other, it could cause confusion by potentially choosing the wrong one. But someone can correct me if I'm wrong. :)
