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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Anne Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annew@kde.org" target="_blank">annew@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>On 07/03/13 09:55, jpbfree wrote:<br>
> Le 07/03/2013 10:27, Anne Wilson a écrit : On 07/03/13 04:38, R<br>
<div><div class="h5">> James wrote:<br>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, AL13N <<a href="mailto:alien@rmail.be">alien@rmail.be</a><br>
>>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:alien@rmail.be">alien@rmail.be</a>>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> While I appreciate the intention, from a user PoV, those<br>
>>>>> UUIDs mean b***** all. It would be really nice if, when<br>
>>>>> they are first named, it was possible to allocate a<br>
>>>>> "nickname" for want of a better term.<br>
>>>> if you use it, filesystems also have label functionalities,<br>
>>>> which iinm are shown in dolphin.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Yeah, I'm not a big fan of UUIDs either so I tend to use<br>
>>>> labels instead. I always partition and format using<br>
>>>> command-line tools in the Rescue System. If you do that, you<br>
>>>> can add the labels yourself. For example:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> # mkfs.ext4 -m 1 -L mgaroot /dev/sda1 # mkswap -L swap<br>
>>>> /dev/sda2 # mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -L home /dev/sda3<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> The -m parameters above specifies the percentage reserved for<br>
>>>> the superuser. the -L parameters are the filesystem labels.<br>
>>>> After that, reboot to the installer and choose Custom<br>
>>>> Partitioning, assign your pre-existing partitions and be sure<br>
>>>> _untick_ the [ ] Format boxes then continue installing as<br>
>>>> usual.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> After the installation, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst<br>
>>>> replacing each UUID=<blahblahblah> with LABEL=<label>. For<br>
>>>> example:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> root=LABEL=mgaroot (and) resume=LABEL=swap<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Similarly in /etc/fstab, you can have entries like:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> LABEL=mgaroot / ext4 relatime 1 1 LABEL=swap swap<br>
>>>> swap defaults 0 0<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> So the 'nickname' feature you request is available with a<br>
>>>> little pre-install preparation and post-install config file<br>
>>>> editing.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Hope this helps -- RJ<br>
>>>><br>
> Thanks. It will help a lot for my own use. However, that really<br>
> needs to be included in the gui disk partitioning, so that people<br>
> can find and use it. I'm fairly sure there is no way to do that at<br>
> present.<br>
><br>
> Anne<br>
>><br>
</div></div><div class="im">> hum.. when in disk-patitioning on mcc if you toggle to expert mode<br>
> therre is a "label" menu (have not tested it though, so don't know<br>
> if it goes up to writing the right stanza in fstab).<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>Really? I do normally enable Expert mode, and I've never noticed<br>
that! Next time I do an install I'll definitely look for it.</blockquote><div> </div><div>It used to work fine at least :)</div><div>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</div>
<div>I think there is a display bug when people have UTF-8 in the label</div></div>
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