Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 16:20:11 -0400 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:17:50PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:18:15PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote: > > > With the current LABEL= support, you won't be able to mount the disks with > > duplicate labels, but you can still mount them via /dev/sd<xxx>. > > Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally unique and > still avoids referencing physical location. You also don't need to > manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs over the past > couple of years have set UUID on partitions, and e2fsck will create a > new UUID if it sees an old filesystem that doesn't already have one.
Presumably, a new UUID is created each time format a partition, which means it is a slight bit of hassle if you have to reload a partition from a dump, or copy a partition to another disk drive. In the scheme of things, it is not a large hassle perhaps, but it is a hassle.
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