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* -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
