On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 14:46:26 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
What sort of filesystem does this partition hold? Cheers, David.
