Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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
On which machine? Don't you ever move drives around? Things can get ugly with duplicate labels even if the reason you added a used disk was just to reformat it and reuse as a different mount.
On all of them. They should be running the same o/s. Move them around? No, not unless we're replacing one that's either failed, or too small. And with hostname and IP via dhcp, there's only a few things to worry about, such as if it's an h/a or HPC cluster member, or backups, home directory server, whatever.
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