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Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check
Date 2019-02-23 19:00 +0100
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Le 23/02/2019 à 17:10, Michael Stone a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 06:57:05AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>>
>>  i've hated UUIDs since they arrived so i've
>> always used LABELS instead.  for people with a simple
>> layout it makes so much more sense to use legible
>> and much shorter id's.
> 
> I never use labels because if I want to attach a drive to another 
> computer for some reason it's extremely common for the labels to collide.

Good point. Labels are not as unique as UUIDs. But you can choose labels 
which are unique enough to avoid collisions, for instance by including a 
substring which identifies the host system or the drive. See Felix's 
example above.

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Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 14:20 +0100
  Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-02-22 15:20 +0100
    Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-23 09:00 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-02-23 13:10 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 19:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 20:20 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 23:00 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-23 23:40 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-24 16:50 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-24 18:40 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 14:00 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 15:50 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 17:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 17:30 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 18:10 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-02-23 22:00 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 22:10 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 19:10 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 17:00 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 17:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-02-23 18:00 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-23 23:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 23:40 +0100
  Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-22 15:20 +0100
    Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 15:30 +0100
      Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-22 16:10 +0100
        Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-22 17:40 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-22 20:20 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-02-22 20:30 +0100
            Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-23 03:00 +0100
              Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-23 09:00 +0100
                Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-23 09:40 +0100
          Re: Swapping Drives - Sanity Check Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-02-22 23:40 +0100

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