Second Hard Drive issue

[Felix Miata]

David Lang composed on 2016-05-13 14:01 (UTC-0700):

> P.S. this is why I hate the 'mount by UUID' approach and don't use it on my
> systems for internal drives.

UUID is simply a default. Anyone who doesn't like it can change it, for any 
drive, not just internal. I have several hundred installations and lots of 
external storage. Nothing is ever mounted here by UUID. Most filesystems 
mount by a label that I choose, something I can relate to its use, content 
and/or mount point. Anybody can do the same.

Mounting by label is particularly well suited to external storage. Put a 
label on the outside of the device, and create (a) volume label(s) to match, 
and it's easy to keep straight what's what, impossible using incomprehensible 
to humans UUIDs that only machines should have to contend with.

If you create a proper fstab or udev entry for any particular volume, you get 
to choose where that is, and find it reliably always in that same place any 
time it's attached.
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