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

[jpbfree]

Le 07/03/2013 10:27, Anne Wilson a écrit :
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> 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:
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>>> 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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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).


JPB
-- GNU/Linux; il y a moins bien mais c'est plus cher!