On 20/04/2023 19:05, songbird wrote:
Default User wrote:
And when partitions were named /dev/hda5, not
6a105a72-f5d5-441b-b926-1e405151ee84.
i use labels on all of my partitions and give them a
legible name. those are what i use in my fstab and also
in any grub or refind configs.
i hate UUIDS. i do understand what they're for and know
about them, but i do not need them for the simple stuff i'm
doing.
Since Default User is playing with restoring partitions from backup and
cloning disks lies somewhere nearby, it may happen that 2 disks with
identical partition labels may be installed simultaneously.
Partition UUIDs are affected as well, but e.g. sgdisk has a dedicated
option:
https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/sgdisk.html
-G, --randomize-guids
Randomize the disk's GUID and all partitions' unique GUIDs (but not
their partition type code GUIDs). This function may be used after
cloning a disk in order to render all GUIDs once again unique
P.S. Some people hate consistent network device naming that was
introduced to solve the same problem with eth0-like names as the one
caused widespread of UUID in fstab instead of /dev/hdaX.
