[OT] LABELs Re: swap on second hard drive
On Thu 19 May 2016 at 07:46:10 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> > On 18/05/16 22:02, deloptes wrote:
> >> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >>> On 17/05/16 18:02, Felix Miata wrote:
> >>>> Mounting by UUID is an optional default. Mounting life is simpler here,
> >>>> because I don't use UUID mounting on any of my hundreds of multiboot
> >>>> installations. Most of my mounts are by LABEL, strings I as a fallible
> >>>> human choose and can remember, according to usage, disk name and/or
> >>>> hostname.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the very useful pointers. I don't know who is the culprit,
> >>> but fstab has an entry for swap with a UUID that is not consistent with
> >>> the actual UUID for the swap partition. I'm going with your advice and
> >>> switch to using labels.
> >>
> >> UUID is better flexible solution in many cases - why not updating fstab
> >> to have the correct uuid?
> >
> > Because I prefer an identifier that I can remember. :-)
>
> Haha, that's fair enough. It took me about 1h to reverse the setup to paper,
> that I have done few years ago on one server with 12disks
> Not only uuid, but crypt and lvm on top. I finally draw a map with this.
> I suggest not relaying on memory anyway ;-)
In the land of car analogies, I think of Serial numbers as VIN,
LABELs as number-plate/tag/rego (I write the LABEL onto disks with marker pen),
partitions UUIDs as the number on a V5 registration document (UK parlance),
UUIDs as the 16-digit number on a V11 (registration renewal).
Cheers,
David.
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