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Hello, |
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So looking at the handbook, I was wondering |
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why it does not describe how to use Disk Labels |
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during the installation process. Dunno. |
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So I poised this question on gentoo-doc |
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and got this encouraging response from *JOSH* |
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snip |
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Some discussion on modifying the Gentoo Handbook to describe |
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how to use Disk Labels is warranted? Many have switched to |
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disk labels in fstab. Maybe the Gentoo handbook should include |
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a section on disk label usage to prepare for the future? |
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and Josh replied: |
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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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So, I opened up a bug on disk labels and the handbook, hoping |
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that knowledgable users I will post to this bug # 354229. |
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James |
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