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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, AL13N <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alien@rmail.be" target="_blank">alien@rmail.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> While I appreciate the intention, from a user PoV, those UUIDs mean<br>
> b***** all. It would be really nice if, when they are first named, it<br>
> was possible to allocate a "nickname" for want of a better term.<br>
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</div>if you use it, filesystems also have label functionalities, which iinm are<br>
shown in dolphin.<br></blockquote><div><br><div>Yeah, I'm not a big fan of UUIDs either so I tend to use labels instead.<br></div><div>I always partition and format using command-line tools in the Rescue<br>System. If you do that, you can add the labels yourself. For example:<br>
<br></div><div># mkfs.ext4 -m 1 -L mgaroot /dev/sda1<br></div><div># mkswap -L swap /dev/sda2<br></div><div># mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -L home /dev/sda3<br><br></div><div>The -m parameters above specifies the percentage reserved for the superuser.<br>
</div><div>the -L parameters are the filesystem labels. After that, reboot to the installer<br>and choose Custom Partitioning, assign your pre-existing partitions and be<br>sure _untick_ the [ ] Format boxes then continue installing as usual.<br>
<br></div><div>After the installation, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst replacing each<br></div><div>UUID=<blahblahblah> with LABEL=<label>. For example:<br></div><div><br></div><div>root=LABEL=mgaroot (and) resume=LABEL=swap<br>
<br></div><div>Similarly in /etc/fstab, you can have entries like:<br></div><div><br></div><div>LABEL=mgaroot / ext4 relatime 1 1<br>LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0<br><br></div><div></div><div>So the 'nickname' feature you request is available with a little pre-install<br>
preparation and post-install config file editing.<br><br></div><div>Hope this helps -- RJ<br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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