-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:45:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > among others "same UUID" (I know, I know), so no need to change fstab. > > Yuck! I recommend you stay away from UUIDs in your fstab. Instead name > your partitions.
Agree -- only in half. I think those are different things and are thus to be used differently. For "permanently" or "semipermanently" mounted things, label/name is a good match. For travelling things, where you want to avoid inadvertent collissions, UUID might be better (you might argue that in this case the UUID shouldn't be in the fstab in the first place; but using the UUID to "recognize" the partition is here the right thing to do). [...] > Of course, you may say that I just traded managing UUIDs against > managing names, but in my experience it's simpler, more upfront, and > intuitive, so I'm never caught off-guard. I may, but I won't say :-) For partitions which don't move much (and that's almost surely the set in fstab) we are in violent agreement. Still you might want to have an "errant disk" in the fstab (the proverbial back-up USB drive which comes and goes): then I would definitely use UUID, to avoid dumping my backups to the wrong drive. But then, this one perhaps wouldn't be documented in fstab. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAliwAPEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZHSACeO/ekKlI9inPsDlt02TavRr+r WxwAn2XyKu8qsinW65dThSRqGuGbhApU =n2p1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----