On 01/09/12 10:33 AM, m.roth at 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 hostnames tend to be messy and nearly as unreadable as a uuid, so embedding them in a label wouldn't actually be much help. my install instructions for this server config ($job work in progress) currently read... mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda1 uuid=$(xfs_admin -u /dev/sda1 | awk '{print $3}') # get the UUID echo "UUID=$uuid /data xfs defaults 1 2" >> /etc/fstab mkdir /data mount /data -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast