John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/09/12 10:33 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
So we use labels. I*loathe* UUIDs. Quick, tell my yours on one system without looking (as would be the case if the drive crashed).
from my rescue environment, I'd use: xfs_admin -u /dev/xxxx (or the somewhat messier ext? equiv)
labels get messy too, when you have 27 systems and a half dozen file systems each. you want your labels globally unique so if you plug a volume into another system for repair there's no collisions. our
They are? I dunno - ours are labelled where they're intended to be mounted, like / or /boot
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 ..... <snip> mark