Re: From SSD to NVME

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 12:24:36PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Clearly, because it's a seriously inept volume LABEL selection. Among the
> following are some better, yet easy enough to remember and type, examples:
> # egrep -i 'deb11|deb 11|seye|bull|debian11|debian 11' *L*txt | grep ├─ | wc -l
> 26
> # egrep -i 'deb11|deb 11|seye|bull|debian11|debian 11' *L*txt | grep ├─
> a-865L10.txt:├─sda28 ext4 SS25deb11	cb7dac29-…
> ab250L26.txt:├─nvme0n1p14 ext4 pt3p14deb11 889fea98-…
[snip]

Never have I felt any need or desire to do anything like that. If I did, 
it would be on an LVM, not on dozens of partitions.

> The *L*txt files are automatically generated partitioner[1] logs with
> both both parted -l and lsblk -f output appended, which I use for keeping
> track of what's installed where here. Strings like pt3, tm8, m25 & sbyd
> above are extractions from disk model and/or serial numbers.

Perhaps we can agree to disagree on what's easy. IMO, your labels are 
basically as opaque as a UUID, even if systemic, but with the 
disadvantage of needing more effort to genreate. :-)