On 20110521_175742, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:33:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > The install program seems to automatically rewrite UUIDs if you ask it > > to erase a partition. IMHO, the method for handling disk naming is still > > a work in progress. In the meantime, my particular kluge involves using > > labels. They are shorter to type and easier to remember. > > (...) > > I'd say there is no perfect method to manage this.
But sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the vastly better. I simply cannot believe that the current situation will persist through the next several releases of Debian. Something better will be found, IMHO. > I still miss the old-plain-intuitive method for designating block devices > (hda → first ide, hdb → second ide device, sda → first scsi/sata device, > etc...) but we have to cope the new changes because they are vry much > needed (nowadays we connect many devices of diverse nature, most of them > hot-swappable and they cannot overlap). > > In this regard, every user chooses the best method for identifying hard > disks (I like labels for removable devices and uuid/id for fixed hard > disks) but lastly this is just a matter of convenience, here there is no > "one size fits all", no method is perfect for all the situations and all > of them have their own drawbacks. I agree that labels are good on hot pluggable devices. I think that happens under Gnome, at least in some circumstances. (or at least it has happened on my computer at times when I have had Gnome installed.) I think labels could be made to work for internal devices with a small measure of cooperation from the installer. What is needed, in my naive opinion, is that the installer use a label if one present on a partition and if it does not conflict with a label that it has already seen in a once through scan of the block special devices. Only if there is a name collision would it use a UUID, and it would generate a new UUID only if the pre-existing UUID conflicts with an already seen the UUID that is on a unlabeled partition. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110521195127.gc11...@cmpq.lan.gnu
