Re: setting initial hostname and volume names

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On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:43 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 09:50:17AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > However, gnome-initial-setup is a bit late because currently
> > anaconda uses hostname to name your btrfs subvolumes. :(
>
> Changing the subject because I've caused the thread to drift from the change
> proposal... :)
>
> I don't think hostname is the best choice for volume name anyway. The
> initial hostname might change after install --
> `fedora_dhcp-192-168-5-45-home` isn't very useful. Let alone the case where
> it gets named "fedora_localhost-live"!
>
> Are there other reasons to do it that early? If not, I think maybe the
> solution here is to change from using the hostname to using something like
> mount point plus a random (first 8 of the UUID?).
>

The name should not be hard to type in a basic terminal, since we don't have
a graphical rescue/recovery environment that makes fancier names not painful.




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