Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:

> > They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and
> > therefore can be human readable.

You can set the UUIDs yourself too, but I think they have to stick to the
standard format.

> Also, if you use a desktop
> > environment, they look nice in file managers.  
> 
> AFAIK that benefit of labels can also be a danger. If you have
> multiple systems and use the same label naming scheme on all of them
> (for example you call your partitions "root" "home" "swap" etc.) and
> someday you plug the HDD from one system into the other, it could
> cause confusion by potentially choosing the wrong one. But someone can
> correct me if I'm wrong. :)
 
If you have multiple systems, the sensible approach it to give each
filesystem a unique label, such as hostname-mountpoint, which also has
the benefit of making it clear which box a drive came from when you get
them mixed up.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

This is as bad as it can get-but don't bet on it.

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