disaster recovery Q's

[Bill Davidsen]

jackson byers wrote:
> Tom Horsley responded
>> Everyone seems to think UUID= is infinitely better to use than LABEL=,
>> but specifically because I can control the LABEL but have no control
>> over the UUID, I always change the fstab and wot-not to use LABEL=
>> after giving my partitions meaningful labels with e2label.
> 
> I have been converted to using UUIDs also,
> but I have often wondered if it would be
> easy/worthwhile to convert back to using labels.
> In my experience, the UUID for the rootfs
> is also hidden away in the init file in the initrd.img.
> If one tries to convert from UUID to labels, doesn't
> the init file have to be changed also?
> (That requires unpacking, editing the init, repacking.)
> Or is it OK to leave UUID in that init file, but labels elsewhere?
> 
I am convinced that UUID makes things less convenient but more reliable. One 
experience with labels and a USB disk was enough for me, if I hadn't noticed 
that the f/s was mounted in the wrong disk data would have been lost.

There are tools to change UUID if you must, but I would rather not in virtually 
all cases.

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