On Mon 01 May 2023 at 13:08:56 (+0200), DdB wrote: > One explanation of my choice to stick with PARTUUID's: > In my overall stategy of using my computer, i am sometimes copying (dd) > whole partitions into a backup, a secondary partition or a VM, which can > easily lead to difficulties, if the same LABELS were used, which can be > changed, but reside INSIDE the partition itself, whereas PARTUUID's > reside in the GPT, which is not affected on partition copy operations.
PARTLABELs also reside in the GPT. > Thus my choice was related to convenience, avoiding some adjustments > after partition copy operations. Only the installer interferes with the > so called "persistent" PARTUUID's, which i regard as being offensive (or > ignorant - for that matter). And PARTLABELs aren't interfered with even by the installer. > I am going to fix that later (on my machine), returning to my preferred > fstab format of using PARTUUID whereever appropriate. Your choice, of course. This post is just FTR. Cheers, David.
