> James wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, AL13N <
alien@rmail.be
>>>> <mailto:
alien@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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