On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. :)
I think we had that conversation one or two weeks ago, in the context of lvm volume names. -- :wq
