On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:11:43PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > Maybe everything would be a lot smoother in the future if we started > using UUID instead of LABEL for installs? Or at least picked some more > sensible labels such as "F7-/", "F7-/boot", "F7t3-/" etc. Maybe even > lurk in a "short UUID" there (ext3 fs labels are limited to 32 bytes > IIRC): for example "F7-1234abcd-/". > > Anyway; right now it's some what a mess having more than one Fedora > install on your drives and, from my personal experience, this have > discouraged me from doing such things. You might also hit this situation if you have Xen / KVM guests using parititions in the host as their virtual disks, if they don't use a nested partition table inside the guest. eg, you end up with something crazy like /dev/sda1 is labeled '/' for the host, but you setup a guest with /dev/sdd1 as its root, which also ends up labeled '/' by default. To avoid this we recommend people partition /dev/sdd1 inside the guest & have anaconda do this by default, but including a short UUID would address that problem more generally. Similarly there is fun & games with logical volume names - both host and guest use VolGroup00 by default. So if you want to access data from a guest partition in the host its very easy to get totally & utterly confused. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list