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

  • @[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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      2 years ago

      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.