[CentOS] USB install annoyances

Mon Jan 9 20:02:46 UTC 2012
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

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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