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2013-08-15 , 23:09
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
It turned out, that some startup scripts (rcS-late?) "cleverly" identify partition meant to be Opt by... checking ID. That is, f****n ID - almost as stupid, as using labels for that purpose.
Annoying, isn't it? I don't understand this world's obsession with IDs. What's wrong with good old /dev/[hs]da[1234]? However hard I try, I can't think of a use case when an ID would be preferable. Quite the opposite in fact, I've lost count of how many times it got in the way of doing things (resizing partitions, for example).

I see it as an annoying penetration of the Windows way of thinking into the open-source ecosystem and a contamination of the latter with the former.

Sorry about the rant, couldn't help it.
 

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