On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:27 on Wednesday 09 February 2011, Mark > Knecht did opine thusly: > >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > James wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> James >> > >> > Given that some folks on here have ran into USB drives changing the order >> > of partitions, I think this is a good idea. If needed, they could at >> > least introduce the subject then have it link to another page. Even if >> > it is the simplest label of using boot, root and such labels and maybe a >> > mention that there are other ways to accomplish the same thing. >> > >> > I ran into this issue a while back when I added a hard drive and it was >> > not easy to work with. When I boot a CD/DVD, it sees them as hd* >> > instead of sd* so that didn't help since the OS kernel sees them as sd*. >> > >> > It may be uphill to get this included or at least linked to something >> > else explaining it but I think it is a good idea. I also added myself >> > to the bug as well. I saw the post on -doc. >> > >> > Dale >> >> Following Walt's recent thread about his experiences using grub2 I >> think getting folks used to disk labels at installation time, be they >> names or even better UUID's, might fit in very well with installation >> instructions that cover using grub2 instead of grub as a boot loader. > > From a practical perspective, fs labels are easier than GUIDs, so I would > recommend labels. Users can invent their own descriptive labels at install > time and enter that into fstab. > > "LABEL=SERVER1-ROOT" is not much more effort than "/dev/sda3" > > GUIDs are another story. They get autogenerated, are invariably displayed on > the screen along with a huge number of other GUIDs (Murphy) and one has to > copy paste the damn things into vi. > > GUIDs are great for ubuntu where an install script does all the heavy lifting, > but Gentoo, being a vastly superior operating system, has made the > devastatingly astounding assumption that users are actually able to think and > type. Whodathunkedit? > > If we expect users to type stuff, we should set it up so they type easy stuff > :-) > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
Hi, If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use :r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some additional information, but the rest is just vi(m) magic. Best regards Petri
