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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Speaking of disk and other names
Date: 22 Jan 2015 17:36:32 GMT
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On 2015-01-22, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <210120151402378353%michelle@michelle.org>,
>  Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
>> My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
>> backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
>
> I had cute names for years, then I got more and more disks and my 
> imagination started failing with age and now my drives (in my Mac Pro) 
> are named Bay_1, Bay_2, etc. Makes it easy to find the right one when 
> I'm swapping them around too. I've still got a USB drive named Godzilla, 
> from when I thought it was a pretty big drive.

I, too, tend to give volumes more utilitarian names in order to make
working with them as quick and pain-free as possible.

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