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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s <caneko@gma=
il.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Grant Edwards
>>> After a bit more googling, it looks like this is what disk labels are
>>> for. =C2=A0Never used them before, but it looks like it's time to give =
them
>>> a go.
>>
>> 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. :)
You are right. But a) if you are swaping harddrives around, you better
know what you are doing, and b) nothing "terrible" happens, I believe
the first (or last) detected drive with a label in fstab will be
mounted. The other one will still be available by UUID and /dev
device.
Regards.
--=20
Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n
Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico