John R Pierce wrote: > 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 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