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

Thu Mar 7 13:10:26 CET 2013

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
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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.
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+It used to work fine at least :)
+I remember making some small changes to diskdrake 4 years ago like
+displaying the label in partition info even in non expert mode and had been
+using labels for many years through diskdrake
+I think there is a display bug when people have UTF-8 in the label
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