Hans composed on 2024-12-02 20:20 (UTC+0100):
> Yes, I read in other debian threads abnout Labels. What is the advantage of
> Labels to UUID? I alwaqys thought, labels can be easily changed and then at
> boot, linux would mount some other partition with the same label.
> But it will be rather difficult, to create a partition with the same UUID
> (but
> other size and content) of an existent (except of cloning, of course).
> Using labels seem to be rather unsecure in my opinion.
Labels not intended to be unique enough would indeed pose a threat to
filesystems.
Mine are unique enough to pose nominal risk. I typically make up a LABEL based
upon some substring from the disk's serial and/or model number, a shorthand name
of the OS/version or usage of the filesystem, and the partition number, 5-13
characters I can remember and type from a Grub prompt, unlike a UUID. Nothing
forces use of special characters, upper case, lower case, numbers or the like as
with online passwords. Use whatever works in your brain. When cloning, tools are
readily available to re-unique labels, e.g. tune2fs -L. I clone often, part of
backup strategy.
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