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 ABD651384AE for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CDD3E0887; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) (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 DFA64E0876 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so66524242wic.0 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:58:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=01M3iUdKhPg1Ql1jwVuyDndHIEDe6UfGHMxVttLRtU4=; b=CN4BbpmRNPxHAYmsoJtieM7nVGUI17TqrAuJeR2J41o2ocIuT01Mgc2JCHDi9uG/PV Sx1aK2dBZkk62ktGQfGJg/p82paAHjuYRtz+RFoGgMuBJ6ge3Tuff8KXMPvb2Oh9rQ+l AhBMRVZ9JMFetpCq7NSuGDI1vqLx6SEvp4ZUkOGVm2JLJ3Q5bxV5IIT7izUxd3+xNAzP RWHj62GqwGP2h6EyOK4D/ZhPbXnRlNaaepcQLGAAlHO2yL9S+kmiCF1+8wshy9FTmgkk h9l9dgWmnulRP6vstoeEhvmprYyr1kiswwmvLlwLsNzF1rG7N9QqcYgUNFvJYXXFz5Q5 lOPA== X-Received: by 10.180.23.193 with SMTP id o1mr4761214wif.71.1442692731849; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-195-3.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.195.3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id jj8sm4838862wid.2.2015.09.19.12.58.50 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org 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> <301F4E8C-D76D-422E-BF78-4F42B1C27E9B@digimed.co.uk> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <55FDBE65.7080702@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:58:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 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 In-Reply-To: <301F4E8C-D76D-422E-BF78-4F42B1C27E9B@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 68903d47-34f0-4167-ac04-a08d3f570961 X-Archives-Hash: 11a78e4e4ba88be787b68cdde8d6e787 On 19/09/2015 21:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, 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* > > > That's like saying you can read French because you know the letters even > if you know nothing of the language :P Ah, but UUIDs have no intrinsic semantic meaning, they are just huge chunks of guaranteed-unique text. Much like French come to think of it... -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com