On 2/28/19 11:02 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:52 AM mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >>> Le 28/02/2019 à 04:12, Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit : >>> >>>> I want to lock in the SDA/SDB/SDC for my drives >>> >>> In short : use UUIDs or labels instead of hardcoding /dev/sdX. >>> >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/persistent_block_device_naming >> >> Yeah - I strongly believe in labels, given the fact that *no* one can >> remember a UUID.... >> >> mark >> > > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid > > (copy) > > (paste) > I second Mark about filesystem labels. Labels you can read and type. UUIDs you can only copy and paste. Yes I did type them a few times, but... With upside there certainly comes downside of filesystem labels: if you are moving storage around you sometimes can hit the situation of having two identical labels. Which during last couple of decades I was able to get around. Valeri > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++