On Thu 27 Aug 2026 at 17:05:28 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > BTW, personally I stay away from UUIDs and use things like labels > instead,
Same here: four-letter basename for the partitions, and the basename is written on the case with a marker pen. > but admittedly I don't know of any mechanism to name disks (as > opposed to partitions). I guess the closest approach with GPT disks might be to subvert the disk GUID, which can be manually set. (It gives you a very limited vocabulary for spelling out words.) OTOH, modern disks are already uniquely named, should you just need identification, with their WWN and Manufacturer/Model/Serial Number. I don't know the timing for when such information becomes available to software, relative to the symlinks under /dev/disk/. As for the sorting problem posed, do you see any relationship between the SATA Port numbers you listed and the /dev/disk/by-path/ paths they end up being named as? Cheers, David.
