Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:03:20 +0200 | Subject | Re: Partition nightmare Was: Migrating to larger numbers | From | Marc Lehmann <> |
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On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 09:33:15AM +0100, DAVID BALAZIC wrote: > > I don't say you shouldn't use volume labels , but that partition > labels are more suitable for those tasks.
But only slightly so... device names are slightly safer than partition labels are slightly safer than volume labels.
> >Do _you_ want to tell me that 99% of the time, e2fsck does something else > >than saying "filesystem clean"? > > When accessing a partition by volume label , the app must read all > avaliable partition and look for the correct label. This might > be undesirable.
Three additional seeks per boot? (And probably no seek at all in the common case where only one partition is on the drive?).
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