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Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub

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On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 14:46:26 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 18 January 2018 14:22:13 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> 
> > Le 18/01/2018 à 19:54, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > > UUID's have turned out to be quite volatile over system upgrades.
> >
> > Not on mine.
> >
> > > Give me a familiar disklabel any day.
> >
> > Don't you mean a filesystem or partition label ?
> > "Disklabel" is a synonym for "partition table".
> 
> Yes of course. I have had the UUID change on this system, on my 
> amandatapes drive at almost every install or upgrade. I finally labeled 
> that partition as amandatapes about 5 years back. No further problems. 
> It been the same 1T seacrate disk since they came out, and this one came 
> out of the box with 25 re-allocated sectors. I updated its firmware a 
> week later, UUID changed. Labeled the partition, and nearly 70 thousand 
> spinning hours later it still shows 25 re-allocated sectors. I am both 
> amazed and pleased as punch. It hovers in the 80% usage range, as a 
> vtape is actually a directory, there are 30 of them, 1, very 
> occasionally 2 of them gets cleaned out and reused every night.

What sort of filesystem does this partition hold?

Cheers,
David.

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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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