Le 07/03/2013 10:27, Anne Wilson a écrit :
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On 07/03/13 04:38, R James wrote:
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, AL13N <al...@rmail.be
<mailto:al...@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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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).
JPB
-- GNU/Linux; il y a moins bien mais c'est plus cher!
