On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011-10-04, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:03:47PM -0700, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote >> >>> 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. >> >> I assume that name clashes can be avoided by using hostname-label. My >> question is... are there any circumstances where you can use UUIDs but >> not labels, or visa versa? If so, I'd prefer to go with the more robust >> option from day 1, rather than switch later. > > The only thing I came across was a mention that some filesystems (e.g. > VFAT) don't support labels. Though all the "good" ones appear to.
VFAT supports labels. mkfs.vfat -n sets the label name at creation time: there must be a way to change it later. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
