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Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub

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From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
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Subject	Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub
Date	Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:00:01 +0100
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On Thursday 18 January 2018 12:42:41 deloptes wrote:

> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs
> > to refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
>
> what is the reason to avoid UUIDs? (if not very private)

UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system upgrades. Give me 
a familiar disklabel any day.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Banishing UUIDs from grub Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-01-18 11:00 +0100
  Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2018-01-18 11:20 +0100
  Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2018-01-18 11:30 +0100
    Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-01-18 14:30 +0100
      Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-18 15:30 +0100
  Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-18 18:50 +0100
    Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-18 20:00 +0100
      Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-18 20:30 +0100
        Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-18 20:50 +0100
          Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-01-18 22:10 +0100
            Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-19 00:10 +0100
              Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-01-19 00:40 +0100
              Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-19 03:00 +0100
                Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-01-19 03:00 +0100
          Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-01-19 02:30 +0100
            Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-19 05:20 +0100
    Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-01-19 14:10 +0100
  Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-18 20:10 +0100
    Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-01-19 04:00 +0100

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