On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM, AL13N <[email protected]> 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
