From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PnVhn-0001pl-JM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:33:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4814E0656; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA07E0656 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so730609ywa.40 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:31:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mvLA+6rfLyUT9QloYrYJZwVpslsy/k9tz70mQKdvgHw=; b=VaHBee7CfKuikF2kh83japUFZcAn3ZrCCVaMdHI0/KbjQCuSrhogEi8xKebQtBRgn/ n2gHG5kYCZOg/OXM0JeV+wkDDgT/Os9QPef8pGjbOnZXdvx6iDqsycDz+3jzWBykHEMo 9yIf8ZB8XFtCzW7rf/Bvo0QVqF8A3pqT5JAFM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OPyPuoVFt4U10N2xL9Ecs11eTaItwS9rFQ6SIHVVG4p0hwliR86xwO21xieWXWW0cj VZviOx7pY9GfCdarg4zfFPXR2HdRRE3bOC8lVVDGp7ZNAbLgQqURrBWix4TXB1ivo34R 68CqwuWs0PGLmHb70KpzZc3D50LjSft6ha4FY= Received: by 10.150.164.1 with SMTP id m1mr3071643ybe.403.1297341074978; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:31:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g14sm942020yhd.5.2011.02.10.04.31.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:31:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D53DA90.3040602@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:31:12 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110201 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook References: <4D52A1C1.7040606@gmail.com> <201102092258.12522.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20110210120055.6e7288c2@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110210120055.6e7288c2@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dc6d988414c7c05a9815bd697a194aa9 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenstr=F6m wrote: > > =20 >> If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use >> :r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some additional >> information, but the rest is just vi(m) magic. >> =20 > None of which makes fstab any more readable. UUIDs are the worst option > in this respect, although they do allow disks to be moved around. > Filesystem labels are the best option for readability and not only do > they allow disks to be moved but also individual filesystems. > =20 When I switched mine, I looked into the UUID option but never could=20 figure out how to tell which is what. I have /boot, /, /home, /portage=20 and /var but how do you get it to tell you the number for say /home? Of=20 all the stuff I read, I never did find that. I agree tho, using the plain labels are easier to understand. Even I=20 got that right. ;-) Dale :-) :-)