On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 17:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Umm, hdx or sdx is a small impact. The real power of /dev/disk is that > >> not-so-technically minded users can go looking for their disk by its name > > > >They already can. It appears on their desktop with a little picture that > >says "My iSpod" or similar 8) > > Not everyone follows Linus's "suggestion" to use KDE. Actually, there are > even people not thrilled by either KDE or GNOME. It works the same way in Gnome (and any reasonable desktop OS). If users really don't want an integrated desktop environment I think they get to figure out the disk naming issues themselves. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
