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

Thu Mar 7 10:27:07 CET 2013

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+On 07/03/13 04:38, R James wrote:
+> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, AL13N <alien at rmail.be 
+> <mailto: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
+> 
+Thanks.  It will help a lot for my own use.  However, that really
+needs to be included in the gui disk partitioning, so that people can
+find and use it.  I'm fairly sure there is no way to do that at present.
+
+Anne
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