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

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:

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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.


It used to work fine at least :)
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
I think there is a display bug when people have UTF-8 in the label
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