Hello, So looking at the handbook, I was wondering why it does not describe how to use Disk Labels during the installation process. Dunno.
So I poised this question on gentoo-doc and got this encouraging response from *JOSH* snip Some discussion on modifying the Gentoo Handbook to describe how to use Disk Labels is warranted? Many have switched to disk labels in fstab. Maybe the Gentoo handbook should include a section on disk label usage to prepare for the future? and Josh replied: These aren't needed to get a system up and running. Yeah, Ubuntu uses them for various ID purposes, but nothing really critical. Unless there's a clear need for them, for example if some package in the @system set will use them in a way that our users will see, I doubt the handbook needs to cover them. Adding labels using udev just seems very finicky and time-consuming, and doesn't seem like it would be of much utility when users are already swamped with everything else the handbook asks them to do. If someone's willing to provide the text, then sure, I'll consider adding it to the handbooks, but if not, then I won't spend any energy trying to write something up. Things like GPT for hard disks are far more important, now that the large-size disks are shipping with it rather than the old MSDOS partition arrangement.. So, I opened up a bug on disk labels and the handbook, hoping that knowledgable users I will post to this bug # 354229. James
