On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and > > therefore can be human readable.
You can set the UUIDs yourself too, but I think they have to stick to the standard format. > 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. :) If you have multiple systems, the sensible approach it to give each filesystem a unique label, such as hostname-mountpoint, which also has the benefit of making it clear which box a drive came from when you get them mixed up. -- Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get-but don't bet on it.
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