Re: Harddrive sorting

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 07:28:43AM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote:
> 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.

You actually label the partition table, no?

Some of my "disks" (OK, they are USB sticks, but hey) don't have a
partition table (for example, my backup disk has "directly" a LUKS,
whithin which is an ext4)

Windows machines look pretty confused when they see it :-)

Cheers
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t

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