Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Gene Heskett Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:00:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Thu Jan 18 18:54:56 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.909 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01, WEIRD_PORT=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.2 X-Asg-Debug-ID: 1516301651-0ea5c173236c3b80001-KlT975 X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: gheskett@shentel.net X-Barracuda-Rbl-Trusted-Forwarder: 204.111.2.25 X-Barracuda-Rbl-IP: 204.111.64.149 X-Barracuda-Effective-Source-IP: n64s149.fttx.shentel.net[204.111.64.149] X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 204.111.64.149 X-Asg-Orig-Subj: Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) X-Kmail-Quoteprefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Barracuda-Connect: smtp2.edbg.cloud.shentel.net[204.111.2.25] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1516301651 X-Barracuda-URL: https://172.26.193.44:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 622 X-Barracuda-Brts-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.50 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.50 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=6.0 tests=WEIRD_PORT X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.47016 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.50 WEIRD_PORT URI: Uses non-standard port number for HTTP X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/731065 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/201801181354.20111.gheskett@shentel.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 17 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:54:20 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <201801181354.20111.gheskett@shentel.net> X-Original-References: <20180118093130.GG25176@sherohman.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:191276 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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page