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 1RAoaj-0003Yq-Dv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:54:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2761A21C22F; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:53:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0B621C1F4 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzt12 with SMTP id zt12so7286518bkb.40 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:47:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cSyU6bMGAvrpSp4GLiRHyiXg9GTeKvTuEjzAVMVCYcg=; b=FHpk/PxKRRtyHd6HPpYANVH5LSFqVW0mutjS6IwW7Djv8f+Y0WVtR+6Iu8Y8TnJAvk 2X5g+zii11bR8sdlDK8iDT+xDD9t+3zzS2Pkp7XSRq2tf14RyxfWsRU4tiJ1IoTu8vls P7LyUqKppYWfPBlmK3rMnShkMSQkxE/hRzeBU= 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 Received: by 10.204.136.71 with SMTP id q7mr197752bkt.77.1317671228735; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.177.199 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:47:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:47:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order. From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 33876dccdde33628800f5eb52ef48012 On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >> They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and >> therefore can be human readable. 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. :) I think we had that conversation one or two weeks ago, in the context of lvm volume names. --=20 :wq