On 2011-10-04, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:03:47PM -0700, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s 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.
>
> I assume that name clashes can be avoided by using hostname-label. My
> question is... are there any circumstances where you can use UUIDs but
> not labels, or visa versa? If so, I'd prefer to go with the more robust
> option from day 1, rather than switch later.
The only thing I came across was a mention that some filesystems (e.g.
VFAT) don't support labels. Though all the "good" ones appear to.
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