From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D009C1384AE for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A55521C0BE; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:52:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.web-xs.org (mail.web-xs.org [148.251.4.204]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD0AB21C099 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 03:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65A36EC2123 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:52:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.web-xs.org Received: from mail.web-xs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.web-xs.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vWBeW-3oSQH1 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server-1.localdomain (p54A70FBF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.167.15.191]) (Authenticated sender: lukas@der-erste-sinn.de) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C150E6EC2132 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hal9000.localdomain (hal.localdomain [192.168.0.2]) by server-1.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4505F3F68D for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:52:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:51:20 +0200 From: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning Message-ID: <20150920055120.5cb24154@hal9000.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <55FDBB34.8080100@gmail.com> References: <55FD0392.2030908@gmail.com> <201509190922.49213.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <55FD80B8.1080609@gmail.com> <20150919205545.3368e0ca@hal9000.localdomain> <9F98F751-9A59-4FF8-BAF1-048EEEEEE636@digimed.co.uk> <55FDB363.1030901@gmail.com> <55FDBB34.8080100@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8737a432-6996-429d-87e2-59dfeeb715ac X-Archives-Hash: e1aa9e03d762f3d9586ea5b060c26790 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, wabenbau@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also > >> had to fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, > >> wound up having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) > >> > >> > >> Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs. > >> They have the advantage that I don't have to change fstab when I > >> must replace a disk. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards > >> wabe > >> > >> > >> > >> Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can > >> change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is > >> that they are human-readable. > > Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but still readable. > > > > Labels are human *understandable* > > > > > > > Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue > what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the > home partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully > confuse someone I guess. :/ With UUIDs, who knows what is what > there. That's also an advantage of labels. It's the same thing with domainnames and IP addresses. For most people, words are easier to remember than numbers. Of course this depends on the words which are used. An URL like http://www.vatnajokulsthjodgardur.is is probably harder to remember than the belonging IP address. At least for non Icelanders. :-) -- Regards