[OT] LABELs Re: swap on second hard drive

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	[OT] LABELs Re: swap on second hard drive
Date	2016-05-19 16:10 +0200
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On Thu 19 May 2016 at 07:46:10 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> > On 18/05/16 22:02, deloptes wrote:
> >> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >>> On 17/05/16 18:02, Felix Miata wrote:
> >>>> Mounting by UUID is an optional default. Mounting life is simpler here,
> >>>> because I don't use UUID mounting on any of my hundreds of multiboot
> >>>> installations. Most of my mounts are by LABEL, strings I as a fallible
> >>>> human choose and can remember, according to usage, disk name and/or
> >>>> hostname.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the very useful pointers. I don't know who is the culprit,
> >>> but fstab has an entry for swap with a UUID that is not consistent with
> >>> the actual UUID for the swap partition. I'm going with your advice and
> >>> switch to using labels.
> >> 
> >> UUID is better flexible solution in many cases - why not updating fstab
> >> to have the correct uuid?
> > 
> > Because I prefer an identifier that I can remember. :-)
> 
> Haha, that's fair enough. It took me about 1h to reverse the setup to paper,
> that I have done few years ago on one server with 12disks
> Not only uuid, but crypt and lvm on top. I finally draw a map with this.
> I suggest not relaying on memory anyway ;-)

In the land of car analogies, I think of Serial numbers as VIN,
LABELs as number-plate/tag/rego (I write the LABEL onto disks with marker pen),
partitions UUIDs as the number on a V5 registration document (UK parlance),
UUIDs as the 16-digit number on a V11 (registration renewal).

Cheers,
David.

http://laughbreak.com/lists/if-microsoft-built-cars/

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swap on second hard drive Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2016-05-17 17:50 +0200
  Re: swap on second hard drive Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-17 19:10 +0200
    Re: swap on second hard drive Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2016-05-18 12:50 +0200
      Re: swap on second hard drive deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 23:10 +0200
        Re: swap on second hard drive Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2016-05-18 23:40 +0200
          Re: swap on second hard drive deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 08:00 +0200
            [OT] LABELs Re: swap on second hard drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-19 16:10 +0200
            Re: swap on second hard drive Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2016-05-19 17:50 +0200
            Re: swap on second hard drive Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-05-19 20:40 +0200
  Re: swap on second hard drive Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-05-17 20:00 +0200

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