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

Thu Mar 7 10:55:54 CET 2013

Le 07/03/2013 10:27, Anne Wilson a écrit :
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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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+hum..
+when in disk-patitioning on mcc if you toggle to expert mode
+therre is a "label" menu (have not tested it though, so don't know if
+it goes up to writing the right stanza in fstab).
+
+
+JPB
+-- GNU/Linux; il y a moins bien mais c'est plus cher!
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