On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards >>> After a bit more googling, it looks like this is what disk labels are >>> for. Never used them before, but it looks like it's time to give them >>> a go. >> >> 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. > > AFAIK that benefit of labels can also be a danger. If you have > multiple systems and use the same label naming scheme on all of them > (for example you call your partitions "root" "home" "swap" etc.) and > someday you plug the HDD from one system into the other, it could > cause confusion by potentially choosing the wrong one. But someone can > correct me if I'm wrong. :)
You are right. But a) if you are swaping harddrives around, you better know what you are doing, and b) nothing "terrible" happens, I believe the first (or last) detected drive with a label in fstab will be mounted. The other one will still be available by UUID and /dev device. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
