On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 06:56:44PM +0100, jdd-gmane wrote:
Le 12/12/2009 18:40, Lars Müller a écrit :
Till now I've only found one use case where the old approach is an advantage. if you have to build a fstab by hand, the new system is very difficult :-(
Are you still using [ ] uucp [ ] lilo [ ] elm ? No, I honestly don't like to know the answers. ;) And yes, as it is weekend even this was again a trial of a joke. Or to ask with as less shaking head: How often are you _creating_ or even touching /etc/fstab by hand? And it's still up to you to use /dev/sd*. But here we're at the starting point of this thread. This even includes the risk to end with an unbootable system as soon as you (have to) change something. Compared to that the requirement to use approximately 60 additional chars is negligible. At least to me. YMMV. An alternative approach is to use disk labels. As this requires additional input and knowledge from the user it's harder to automate while the initial setup. See section "6. Labels" of the "Linux Partition HOWTO". For reierfs see reiserfstune. Independent of the disk device name topic it might be usefull to suggest the utilization of filename completion in the editor of choise[1]. Now cake is waiting in the citchen ... Lars [1] for vim see http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3805 for emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_File-Name_Completion_Tips might provide the required starting point. -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany