Fedora 9 and Security

[Robin Laing]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
>> On 5/28/08, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>>
> Unless the new install has the same LABEL as one of the old ones. I know 
> three people who have been bitten by using LABEL and getting duplicates, 
> the beauty of UUID is that you won't get a dup with multiple installs, 
> you won't copy a filesystems only or off of a USB drive and plug the 
> drive with the old duplicate name back in a year later.
> 
> UUID is ugly, but useful.
> 

Maybe there needs to be a simple way to show the UUID/Label/dev list for 
each device.  I have not looked at it in detail.  Maybe a flag for the 
various programs that use the UUID devices like df.


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Robin Laing