<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lorenzo Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:daxlinux@gmail.com">daxlinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just curious, what is the advantage of using a UUID over using a label?<br>Wouldn't it be easier and more human-readable to create a volume label<br>and use label= in /etc/fstab at least for those filesystems that support
<br>labels?<br><br></blockquote></div>The problem of the /dev/[sh]d? naming convention is that it's given to hard drive at each boot, without knowledge of the last boots.<br><br>Imagine what may happen if hda and hdb swap at each boot (it already happened to someone ...).
<br><br>UUID is not human friendly, but it's stable, it defines uniquely a hard drive. No more unwelcommed swapping.<br><br><br>G. <br>