On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, <m.roth at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com