Re: Unusable free space?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-16 17:04, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will 
> > cause your system to not reboot?  That's why LABEL and UUID are now 
> > used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab.
>
>     Call me a luddite but UUID < partition numbers for the simple reason 
> I can manually write down numbers and be pretty sure I didn't transpose 
> one of the 4 pieces of data required to get it to work.  Every time I 
> see a UUID I just wanna thunk my head against the desk.

That's why there's also LABEL.  You just gotta do your own uniqueness.

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