Hi Les, On 29/09/11 22:25, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM,m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
When I build, our PXEboot ks partitions and labels the partitions. When I add or replace, I make the partition, the fs, and e2label them. I've gotten to really appreciate labeling. I hate the UUIDs - they're ludicrously too long, and bear no relationship to what device they are, or where they go.
What happens when you move the disks around among machines? Or don't you ever do that after they contain data?
Why would you move disks around machines unless you're recovering them after a failure? Then just make sure they don't exist on the recovery server.
Maybe it's the way the machines I get involved are used, they're mostly database servers and their lifetime are measured in 3-5 years so once they're up and running, not a lot of people touches them. If a disk is being moved around, it gets decomissioned and wiped out first, not after.
Also if you stick to more descriptive labels I think you'd be safe over the long run. Just don't call all of them "data". :-)