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Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive
Date 2020-08-30 11:47 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
Message-ID <slrnrkn4e0.dvr.g.kreme@ProMini.lan> (permalink)
References <ri6doc$1vv$1@dont-email.me> <slrnrkdpg1.fie.g.kreme@ProMini.lan> <13bbb97d-8309-4a72-914e-e946fb3b8199o@googlegroups.com>

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In message <13bbb97d-8309-4a72-914e-e946fb3b8199o@googlegroups.com> MeV <michael.vilain@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 3:45:25 PM UTC-7, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <ri6doc$1vv$1@dont-email.me> Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
>> > Will renaming an extended journaled partition on an external USB 
>> > spinning hard drive with a GUID Partition Map under OS 10.15.6 put its 
>> > data at risk or create other problems?
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> Well, if you have written code that accesses the volume by name,
>> obviously that will stop working.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Oh never resist an impulse, Sabrina. Especially if it's terrible.

> Like SuperDuper! backups will fail

Really? That seems odd, why would it not use the disk ID? That seems
very broken to me if renaming a disk causes your backup strategy to
fail.

-- 
We’re despairing in style, as befits two former High Kings of Fillory.

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Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2020-08-26 15:38 -0400
  Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-08-26 22:45 +0000
    Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive MeV <michael.vilain@gmail.com> - 2020-08-29 07:51 -0700
      Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2020-08-29 18:27 -0400
      Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-08-30 11:47 +0000
        Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-08-30 08:47 -0700
        Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2020-08-31 08:31 +0000
          Re: Rename Partition on USB Hard Drive JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-09-01 01:20 -0400

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