On 14 April 2013 12:13, Kyle <kyle@xxxxxx> wrote: > According to Rashif Ray Rahman: > # -- with UUID. I dislike hardcoding label names as they are likely to > # change, but UUIDs are static (barring reformats). > > I greatly prefer labels, because they are human readable, chosen by the > end user, and unless I'm totally misunderstanding how they work, only > change if the end-user manually changes them. The same label can even be > reused after a reformat, as long as it is specified exactly as it > appeard before the old filesystem was deleted. On the other hand, UUID's > are only computer readable, change on every format, and make absolutely > no sense to the end user when trying to figure out what drive or > partition contains what filesystem. Kyle, in general, I agree with you. From a usability perspective, long strings of alphanumeric characters to identify something are just a total PITA. Using UUIDs is simply a habit I incurred from having to swap disks and systems around, where I am allowed to "deploy once and forget". In my experience, it has solved more problems. But, to each her own, as every use case is different. I was just suggesting an alternative, which may or may not work well for the use case. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
