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Originally Posted by computersavvy
The serial number is only partially helpful if there are multiple partitions on the drive
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Naturally.
e.g. LABEL
cH6Ep17f34, merely 10 characters (same count as a bazillion phone numbers) instead of 36, for
- Brand: crucial
- Serial: …H6E
- partition:17
- OS: fedora 34
This would not likely be as perplexing with an identical HD identically configured with F34 in an "identical" PC (with its unique HD serial #) as it would trying to determine whether every filesystem in every multiboot PC fstab is appropriately being mounted based upon randomly generated unique strings of 36 alphanumeric characters.
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most don't have access to that data on home machines anyway.
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I disagree. IME, the physical label always matches the hardware info (unless no serial at all, in which case a model number or bar code number should suffice):
Code:
# hwinfo --disk | grep -i serial
Serial ID: "<…>"
Serial ID: "<…>"
Serial ID: "<…>"
Thus the reason for selection of serial string as LABEL (identifier) portion.