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On 02/08/11 14:11, Joshua Saddler wrote: |
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> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:19:58 -0500 |
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> wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> Some discussion on modifying the Gentoo Handbook to |
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>> describe how to use Disk Labels is warranted? |
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>> Many have switched to disk labels in fstab. Maybe |
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>> the Gentoo handbook should include a section on disk label |
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>> usage to prepare for the future? |
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> These aren't needed to get a system up and running. Yeah, Ubuntu uses |
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> them for various ID purposes, but nothing really critical. Unless |
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> there's a clear need for them, for example if some package in the |
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> @system set will use them in a way that our users will see, I doubt |
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> the handbook needs to cover them. Adding labels using udev just seems |
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> very finicky and time-consuming, and doesn't seem like it would be of |
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> much utility when users are already swamped with everything else the |
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> handbook asks them to do. |
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> If someone's willing to provide the text, then sure, I'll consider |
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> adding it to the handbooks, but if not, then I won't spend any energy |
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> trying to write something up. Things like GPT for hard disks are far |
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> more important, now that the large-size disks are shipping with it |
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> rather than the old MSDOS partition arrangement.. |
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OK, I have opened up bug 354229 on this issue. Please give some |
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time for folks to post to the bug on ideas and text with |
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examples. |
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thanks for your consideration. |
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James |