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. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
