sd, sd, who's got the sd

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Apr 30 20:35:27 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 16:11 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Maybe everything would be a lot smoother in the future if we started
> using UUID instead of LABEL for installs? Or at least picked some more
> sensible labels such as "F7-/", "F7-/boot", "F7t3-/" etc. Maybe even
> lurk in a "short UUID" there (ext3 fs labels are limited to 32 bytes
> IIRC): for example "F7-1234abcd-/".

The talk has begun to switch to UUID for F8...  it's unfortunate largely
because UUIDs are so inpenetrable and not memorable.  It's nice to be
able to say LABEL=/ to boot from...
UUID=a511eb56-c6a7-4afd-ae73-498bcb1909bc, err... yeah :)

But since we're limited to 16 character labels, there's not really much
in the way of other options.  

Jeremy




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