[Mageia-dev] Why is AHCI statically compiled into kernel?

Thu Mar 7 05:38:54 CET 2013

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+
+> >
+> > While I appreciate the intention, from a user PoV, those UUIDs mean
+> > b***** all.  It would be really nice if, when they are first named, it
+> > was possible to allocate a "nickname" for want of a better term.
+>
+> if you use it, filesystems also have label functionalities, which iinm are
+> shown in dolphin.
+>
+
+Yeah, I'm not a big fan of UUIDs either so I tend to use labels instead.
+I always partition and format using command-line tools in the Rescue
+System. If you do that, you can add the labels yourself. For example:
+
+# mkfs.ext4 -m 1 -L mgaroot /dev/sda1
+# mkswap -L swap /dev/sda2
+# mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -L home /dev/sda3
+
+The -m parameters above specifies the percentage reserved for the superuser.
+the -L parameters are the filesystem labels. After that, reboot to the
+installer
+and choose Custom Partitioning, assign your pre-existing partitions and be
+sure _untick_ the [ ] Format boxes then continue installing as usual.
+
+After the installation, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst replacing each
+UUID=<blahblahblah> with LABEL=<label>. For example:
+
+root=LABEL=mgaroot (and) resume=LABEL=swap
+
+Similarly in /etc/fstab, you can have entries like:
+
+LABEL=mgaroot  /     ext4  relatime  1 1
+LABEL=swap     swap  swap  defaults  0 0
+
+So the 'nickname' feature you request is available with a little pre-install
+preparation and post-install config file editing.
+
+Hope this helps -- RJ
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