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

Thu Mar 7 11:04:29 CET 2013

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+On 07/03/13 09:55, jpbfree wrote:
+> Le 07/03/2013 10:27, Anne Wilson a écrit : 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
+>> 
+> 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).
+> 
+> 
+Really?  I do normally enable Expert mode, and I've never noticed
+that!  Next time I do an install I'll definitely look for it.
+
+Anne
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