Michael Stone composed on 2024-12-05 13:13 (UTC-0500): > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 12:24:36PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>>Clearly, because it's a seriously inept volume LABEL selection. Among the >>following are some better, yet easy enough to remember and type, examples: >># egrep -i 'deb11|deb 11|seye|bull|debian11|debian 11' *L*txt | grep ├─ | wc >>-l >>26 >># egrep -i 'deb11|deb 11|seye|bull|debian11|debian 11' *L*txt | grep ├─ >>a-865L10.txt:├─sda28 ext4 SS25deb11 cb7dac29-… >>ab250L26.txt:├─nvme0n1p14 ext4 pt3p14deb11 889fea98-… > [snip] > Never have I felt any need or desire to do anything like that. If I did, > it would be on an LVM, not on dozens of partitions I have more than 40 PCs with well in excess of a dozen installed distros, each on a partition, readily cloned as element of backup system or seeding a new PC. I've never imagined any remotely simple way cloning (from outside an involved OS) could work with LVM employed. >>The *L*txt files are automatically generated partitioner[1] logs with >>both both parted -l and lsblk -f output appended, which I use for keeping >>track of what's installed where here. Strings like pt3, tm8, m25 & sbyd >>above are extractions from disk model and/or serial numbers. > Perhaps we can agree to disagree on what's easy. IMO, your labels are > basically as opaque as a UUID, even if systemic, but with the > disadvantage of needing more effort to genreate. :-) Generate too, big deal. I get cross-eyed looking at them. LOL 8 or 13 characters I can remember, recognize and type within a 40 entry custom.cfg or 40_custom, among other places, such as # wc -l /etc/fstab 155 /etc/fstab # I'm annoyed constantly in help forums, where scrolling is required, or wrapping occurs, because of 36 character UUID string pollution functioning as yet another "personally identifiable information"[1] data element for the data scrapers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identifier -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
