On Sun, 25 May 2008, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Sat, 24 May 2008 23:14:29 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> So I can't change this, can I?
>
> You're perfectly free to change them. However, if you change them to
> use device names, you're not allowed to complain if it breaks because
> the device names change on reboot someday. :)
>
That's precisely my worry.
I had precisely that problem when troubleshooting
difficulties with moving /home.
Knoppix and Fedora used different device names.
Adding to the confusion was a swap partition whose label
included a device name that no longer applied to it.
I'm not convinced about the utility of having schizophrenic
partition
labels upon install, with no other option. How many people run several
unixes on the same computer? 5% maybe? Then maybe they should be given the
option to have ugly labels, and let the rest of us have pretty labels by
default.
I'd recommend labels along the lines of
something-pretty-and-meaningful_disk-sequence-number_partition-sequence-number
disk-sequence-number would distinguish a
disk from every other disk you ever owned.
Three digits would be more than enough for most of us.
Similarly, partition-sequence-number would distingusih a partition
from every other partition that was ever on that disk.
Three digits should be a great plenty.
something-pretty-and-meaningful is pretty much a matter of whim,
but I'd avoid anything with /dev in it.
BTW labels are not the same as UUIDs,
but I don't know much more than that about UUIDs.
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