On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
That's like saying you can read French because you know the letters even if you know nothing of the language :P -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
