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

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Thu Mar 7 11:04:29 CET 2013


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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.

Anne
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