Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752950AbZAZWC1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:02:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752004AbZAZWCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:02:13 -0500 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:50131 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754497AbZAZWCM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:02:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:02:11 -0500 To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support) Message-ID: <20090126220210.GB26064@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20090125110742.4ba54c0b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 23 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07:15:40AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > It comes with one :) > # xfs_admin -u /dev/sdd2 > UUID = 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8 > > Will try to use this to boot; however, I'd prefer the labels over the > UUID, wish there was an easy way to set it. I prefer UUIDs. Much mroe likely to have the same label on multiple drives than the same UUID. I don't want to have to worry about what label some usb device might have if I happen to have it plugged in during a reboot. Labels do tend to be shorter and more human readable of though. -- Len Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/