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

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Thu Mar 7 10:27:07 CET 2013


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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:
> 
>> 
>> 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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