On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Anne Wilson <an...@kde.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 <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 > >> > > 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
