Yet another futuristic wishlist item

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 04:50, Thomas Hille wrote:

> Maybe we should drop using labels at all? To be honest I don't know what
> they are good for anyway. Or instead of using the hostname use a random
> number? Other suggestions maybe?

Already possible.  Every filesystem has a UUID (universally unique
identifier) which is a big ugly random hex string.  You can mount based
on the UUID by putting 'UUID=xxx' in the first column of the fstab file.

Personally, I prefer the label for human-friendliness, but if you're
going to be moving drives around between systems, you should probably
make a switch to UUIDs part of your preparations.

Wil
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