On 3 September 2017 20:11:51 GMT+02:00, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> My new laptop uses /dev/nvme0n1 instead of /dev/sda which >conflicts >> >> with the script I use to manage about 12 similar laptops running >> >> Gentoo. Is there a udev method for renaming the disk that will >work >> >> well with any USB disks that happen to also be attached? >> >> >> >> crw------- 1 root root 252, 0 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0 >> >> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1 >> >> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p1 >> >> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p2 >> > >> > Isn't so much easier to use labels? Those are automatically >available on >> > /dev/disk/by-label, and you can use them in basically any type of >partition, >> > including Windows (NTFS and vfat) and swaps. >> >> >> Do labels work with root= in grub and stuff like dd, fdisk, and mkfs? > >The label by itself works at boot since it's just another kernel >parameter; >for example in my latop (that uses NVME, by the way) uses the following >in >the kernel command line: "root=LABEL=Dell".
Since when does the kernel support labels? Last time I checked, you need an initramfs to make that work. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
