The alternative being running os-prober at boottime, on every boot.
Currently, we set UUID using os-prober whenever we remake grub.cfg, analogous to that would be registering web-server static IPs with a DNS, which provides the domain name aliases (we don’t need to see UUID in the GRUB menu right? We see the OS names).
An analogy to the alternative would be to ask all devices on the internet to send their usage methods everytime you try to look for another site.
thats a reason to use the uuid in the fstab
Anyone else chuckle on the parallel in saying to use the UUID is no different than saying “just hardcore the IP bro”
I’m not hating on you, but it’s an extremely flawed system where you are forced to use a direct ID mapping as a reference.
From what I’m understanding from people you can assign an alias to the UUID that sounds better?
It’s more like setting a static IP. The UUID is set when you create the partition and won’t change unless you force it to change.
You can also use any of the GUI utilities which can add it to your fstab.
There’s a lot of things that are made way too difficult on Linux for seemingly no reason. This isn’t one of them.
I mean you can also use partition labels but who does that
Oh really? That seems interesting and better than a random uuid
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The alternative being running
os-proberat boottime, on every boot.Currently, we set UUID using
os-proberwhenever we remakegrub.cfg, analogous to that would be registering web-server static IPs with a DNS, which provides the domain name aliases (we don’t need to see UUID in the GRUB menu right? We see the OS names).An analogy to the alternative would be to ask all devices on the internet to send their usage methods everytime you try to look for another site.