On 18.07.2018 14:30, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 17/07/18 11:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Real humans can't be expected to work with UUIDs (or have existing filesystem labels). UUIDs are for software like grub, systemd and kernel, not people.
+1
That's why we have DNS. That's why the cities we live in have names and we don't use Latitude/Longitude to describe where we live.
Even the few of us who are good at mental arithmetic don't think in those sort of numbers.
Whenever I set up a new drive I use some to tool to labels the disk. It may be ROOT4 or HOME17 or PHOTO18, and I try hard to make it both unique and meaningful.
Occasionally I find the grub.conf has a UUID and I struggle to translate that and replace it with a meaningful /dev/disk/by-label/ or /dev/disk/by-partlabel/
YMMV but why make life difficult for yourself. After all the computer is there for your convenience. It's not as if if you are there for the convenience of the computer. Yet.
hm. If you use windows or mac in fact you do what the computer says, one of the reasons why I use Linux. Even android wants to give me orders ("Allow access to the microphone now!" says google Maps each time, although it doesn't need it, but someone at google wants to hear if there are any moans in my car, probably to delete them if considered inappropriate...) On the other hand, with my recent problems I use more time for the computer than the computer works for me :-( But that's off-off-topic. In regard to disk-labels: I label my external disks with useful names, but when I plug them by usb the message is only "1.8 TB encrypted drive". So if I connect several I never know which one is which, especially when I want to disconnect one to plug another one. Would be extremely nice if that box that opens when you plug a device would show it's name. But it's not my biggest problem, though. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org