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

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 7 18:08:10 CET 2013


On 2013-03-07 17:52 (GMT+0100) Johnny A. Solbu composed:

> R James wrote:

>> After the installation, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst replacing each
>> UUID=<blahblahblah> with LABEL=<DEFANGED_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

> The problem with that is in those situations where one have two partitions with the same label, such as when one install into a new and bigger disk and keeps the old disk installed. A friend of mine does that quite often.

> I still prefer UUID, as those are unique.

As there are something like 16 or more characters available for volume labels 
on native partitions, there's no need in the vast majority of situations for 
them to be non-unique. Even after cloning operations it's a simple enough 
matter in most cases to alter the copies' and/or originals' labels and UUIDs. 
I use labels liberally with native partitions in cmdlines and fstabs, UUIDs 
never. Volume labels can be readily remembered and typed as circumstances 
dictate, unlike UUIDs.
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