Re: Yet another futuristic wishlist item

[Chris Ricker <kaboom gatech edu>]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Wil Cooley wrote:

> 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.

you could use devlabel, and get the best of both approaches.

later,
chris