On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 15:01 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> The way I set up a new system is to use fdisk/parted/gparted to create
> a new partition from free space, and mkfs a vfat/ext2/ext3/ext4
> filesystem with label. Then in anaconda I find the same partition
> by label [currently I do this using bash text commands on VT2]
> and re-format it always, in order to capture the installer's default
> parameters for the filesystem.
It sounds like the basic reason you have this problem of knowing which
filesystems are which stems from that fact that you create the
partitions outside of anaconda. Do you have some requirements for
partitioning that anaconda cannot satisfy?
>
> So, I'd like to see a Custom partition chooser/editor that displays
> the label for each partition, and allows to specify a new label whenever
> formatting. There is plenty of space: 1/2 to 2/3 of the screen.
> I favor displaying the label and the UUID always, although I can
> understand others wanting /dev/disk/{by-id,by-path,by-partlabel}.
>
This is certainly something we will consider. We do want to discourage
the use of labels as the primary (/etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab, &c) means
of identifying filesystems since they are not guaranteed to be unique,
but that does not necessarily preclude an interface for specifying
and/or viewing labels as a convenience.
FWIW kickstart already allows both arbitrary identifiers for existing
devices/filesystems (include LABEL=) and an option to specify a label
when creating a filesystem (--label=).
Dave
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