On Thursday 12 November 2009, jackson byers wrote: >Tom Horsley responded > >> Everyone seems to think UUID= is infinitely better to use than LABEL=, >> but specifically because I can control the LABEL but have no control >> over the UUID, I always change the fstab and wot-not to use LABEL= >> after giving my partitions meaningful labels with e2label. > >I have been converted to using UUIDs also, >but I have often wondered if it would be >easy/worthwhile to convert back to using labels. >In my experience, the UUID for the rootfs >is also hidden away in the init file in the initrd.img. >If one tries to convert from UUID to labels, doesn't >the init file have to be changed also? >(That requires unpacking, editing the init, repacking.) >Or is it OK to leave UUID in that init file, but labels elsewhere? > >Jack > I just did that conversion today, IIRC for the 2nd time in 3 or 4 years, and did not have to rebuild anything other than making sure all the I's were dotted and the T's crossed in both /etc/fstab and in /boot/grub/grub.conf. No vmlinuz or initrd rebuild was required. But since I was moving the drive, I did have to grub-install /dev/sda twice before it worked.
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