Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub
On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system upgrades.
>
> Not on mine.
>
> > Give me a familiar disklabel any day.
>
> Don't you mean a filesystem or partition label ?
> "Disklabel" is a synonym for "partition table".
Yes of course. I have had the UUID change on this system, on my
amandatapes drive at almost every install or upgrade. I finally labeled
that partition as amandatapes about 5 years back. No further problems.
It been the same 1T seacrate disk since they came out, and this one came
out of the box with 25 re-allocated sectors. I updated its firmware a
week later, UUID changed. Labeled the partition, and nearly 70 thousand
spinning hours later it still shows 25 re-allocated sectors. I am both
amazed and pleased as punch. It hovers in the 80% usage range, as a
vtape is actually a directory, there are 30 of them, 1, very
occasionally 2 of them gets cleaned out and reused every night.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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