Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Daniel Frey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to >> fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up >> having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) >> >> >> Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs. They have >> the advantage that I don't have to change fstab when I must replace >> a disk. >> >> -- >> Regards >> wabe >> >> >> >> Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can >> change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that >> they are human-readable. > Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable. > > Labels are human *understandable* > >
Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully confuse someone I guess. :/ With UUIDs, who knows what is what there. Dale :-) :-)
