On Thursday 18 January 2018 20:25:51 David Wright wrote: > 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? > Std ext4.
> Cheers, > David. Cheers, Gene Heskett The above content, added by Maurice E. Heskett, is Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. 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>
