Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support)

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jan 26 16:02:11 CST 2009


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




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