On 01/09/12 11:11 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > They are? I dunno - ours are labelled where they're intended to be > mounted, like / or /boot don't plug one of those into a different system for repair or you'll have all kinda grief. $HOSTNAME_root would be the sane way to do it... >> hostnames tend to be messy and nearly as unreadable as a uuid, so >> embedding them in a label wouldn't actually be much help. > Oh, you're in one of *those* places.... "This machine was bought under > this account, and is part of this project, and there's 1-4 char > abbreviations for each, and ..... well, $job is at a large multinational... company standardized hostnames start with a 3 letter site prefix, then -S for server, then a 6 digit department ID, then -nnn as a server ID within that group. fug-ly. projects are too transient and servers tend to bounce around between physical and virtual over their life cycle. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos