Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> 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.
That's also an advantage of labels. It's the same thing with domainnames and IP addresses. For most people, words are easier to remember than numbers. Of course this depends on the words which are used. An URL like http://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is is probably harder to remember than the belonging IP address. At least for non Icelanders. :-) -- Regards
