Quoting Bret Busby ([email protected]): > > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions, > identified using the UUID's (which, to a user like me, in the context > of trying to restore the GRUB multi-OS selection bootloader, are > meaningless, and, as useful as listing the subatomic particles, or the > elements of the Periodic Table), showed the labels that had been set > for the partitions, and so, did not show into which partition, each of > the operating systems had been installed.
I think UUIDs are here to stay, whether or not you supplement them, as I do, with LABELs or whatever. In my case, Debian poked them in my eye when they suddenly appeared in the output of df, causing the interesting part to be half-wrapped around the screen. In turn that was caused by their use in the newly installed /etc/fstab in place of the old /dev/sdaX etc. That's going back some years. With hot plugging and so on, you really can't get away with /dev/... any more unless you want to accidently reformat the wrong partition. And not everyone sets LABELs, so there's not much choice. As long as you don't clone a partition without changing the UUID, and you don't subvert UUID generation, they're unique and safe. And Grub is a prime candidate for their use, what with all the options for swapping drives around in the BIOS, partitions numbered in the wrong order etc. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
