I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    That mounting drives with their uuid as the mount location is insane

    Why tho? Kernel sometimes can index drives in different order (if you have multiple drives), screwing your mount locations. But UUID is always the same

    • Montagge
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      32 years ago

      It’s just really long is all. I wish I had given it something shorter but descriptive.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      You can give your partitions labels and mount by label. Labels are persistent, like UUIDs, but are also easier to remember and copy.

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        But why would I even try to remember them? Just look them up. Nowadays I don’t even see them since I use Gnome Disk Utility or KDE partition manager to automount them (they both just write to your /etc/fstab)

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          12 years ago

          But why would I even try to remember them? Just look them up.

          For me, I used labels when setting up those volumes manually. Creating a LUKS container, setting up LVM groups and volumes, configuring my bootloader to decrypt the correct encrypted disk, etc. It was just easier to remember which device label was my encrypted container, which was the group, and what the different volumes were. And once the labels were made, well, I just used them.