On 14 April 2013 12:13, Kyle <kyle@gmx.ca> wrote:
According to Rashif Ray Rahman: # -- with UUID. I dislike hardcoding label names as they are likely to # change, but UUIDs are static (barring reformats).
I greatly prefer labels, because they are human readable, chosen by the end user, and unless I'm totally misunderstanding how they work, only change if the end-user manually changes them. The same label can even be reused after a reformat, as long as it is specified exactly as it appeard before the old filesystem was deleted. On the other hand, UUID's are only computer readable, change on every format, and make absolutely no sense to the end user when trying to figure out what drive or partition contains what filesystem.
Kyle, in general, I agree with you. From a usability perspective, long strings of alphanumeric characters to identify something are just a total PITA. Using UUIDs is simply a habit I incurred from having to swap disks and systems around, where I am allowed to "deploy once and forget". In my experience, it has solved more problems. But, to each her own, as every use case is different. I was just suggesting an alternative, which may or may not work well for the use case. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1