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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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