On 20/04/2023 19:05, songbird wrote:
Default User wrote:And when partitions were named /dev/hda5, not 6a105a72-f5d5-441b-b926-1e405151ee84.i use labels on all of my partitions and give them a legible name. those are what i use in my fstab and also in any grub or refind configs. i hate UUIDS. i do understand what they're for and know about them, but i do not need them for the simple stuff i'm doing.
Since Default User is playing with restoring partitions from backup and cloning disks lies somewhere nearby, it may happen that 2 disks with identical partition labels may be installed simultaneously.
Partition UUIDs are affected as well, but e.g. sgdisk has a dedicated option:
https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/sgdisk.html
-G, --randomize-guids
Randomize the disk's GUID and all partitions' unique GUIDs (but not
their partition type code GUIDs). This function may be used after
cloning a disk in order to render all GUIDs once again unique
P.S. Some people hate consistent network device naming that was introduced to solve the same problem with eth0-like names as the one caused widespread of UUID in fstab instead of /dev/hdaX.