Re: Harddrive sorting

Michel Verdier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2026-08-27, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> BTW, personally I stay away from UUIDs and use things like labels
> instead, but admittedly I don't know of any mechanism to name disks (as
> opposed to partitions).

Labels are a way to identify a group of devices while uuid identify an
unique device (when you don't force the uuid).
You can label a disk. I don't remember well but I think I did it while
setting a partition table. Probably with fdisk.
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