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 64C3E1384AE for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BFFD21C08E; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f178.google.com (mail-yk0-f178.google.com [209.85.160.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D78C21C03B for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ykft14 with SMTP id t14so73552495ykf.0 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:44:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ePcFoKVp4Q8Sdx8mwPk+80c7Hi+SknJmwKfEw6QrHu4=; b=kBhj0cpawsVCwsz0WOWvrmDLQfW9QgJANzAFD9JPip6MR2ESYluR9ZWJokXaJVjQRG kiRg/WELQ4XDTqrBoFRb9cUGyIHlNafQ5RZKLHdb3XvgGQ5rcStOMh0VLdbLm2yHNl4B F3xTT/hq9suCD5/ZGcUQpPzR1ZDwf91lOsFALMGV067J2ln6B3FTspjPZfFkYAoV57Oa gTguBneQ/kP2V7tcXrOn41BZ2vJ3bGzuCgldzLmgU4doYrEqwp39drAlqcoaFwrVI4pu 7jwb2n+8/VGZy+9Y/Vn4dJC5CWfxaGffDBJ+kU/F7eeB2dTRVhc50CkdCRFXn6ewSzqx Evuw== X-Received: by 10.129.38.213 with SMTP id m204mr9566416ywm.74.1442691896623; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-115-33.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.115.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a4sm10000390ywc.15.2015.09.19.12.44.54 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55FDBB34.8080100@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 14:44:52 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 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] mpv upgrade warning 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> In-Reply-To: <55FDB363.1030901@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4b5f5c67-dcd5-439c-9c0b-e734479342ee X-Archives-Hash: e3e08ec89e7e479d66f1013b49bf0e3e 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. Dale :-) :-)