On Sat, 8 May 2021 12:40:50 +1000, faeychild wrote:
> On 7/5/21 6:25 pm, Bit Twister wrote:
>
>>
>> In my stupid opinion, /tmp should not be shared.
>>
>> My suggestion would be modify all installs /etc/fstab to change
>> /tmp to say, /local, change partition label, create /local mount point
>> and mount it. Then you could put scripts and whatnot in /local which
>> could be shared across installs.
>>
>> For example
>> $ ls /local/
>> bin cron icons log opt ppp tmp
>> config doc lock lost+found phone sounds
>
> I would like to clean up all the installs and just keep mageia 6. That's
> the only release that dvdstyler will work on.
>
> I assume from the above that you mean to reduce /tmp and create a
> "local" partition.

Not trying to reduce /tmp per say. Just pointing out /tmp usage size
is pretty small under normal operation.

As for /local, just a suggestion about a partition that has common stuff
you would want to share across installs. I want to have a consistent
look and feel regardless of DE so I use the icons from /local/icons,
/local/sounds have wav files used by by my scripts ti get my attention.

/local/cron has my cron jobs so I do not have to do much change
in the /etc/cron.* directories.

>
> I still have trouble getting my head around, name, label, partlabel, and
> Google searches don't make it any clearer.

It is pretty straight forward. There is no relationship between
label and partlabel. GPT partition allows you to have a partlabel.

label is available in GPT and MSDOS partition and can be/is used as
the mount point if not defined in /etc/fstab depending on OS.

Formatting of a partition with a label will wipe out the label/UUID but
does not change the partlabel/PUUID.

The name can change based on when the partition becomes available
during the boot process. Because of that and label/partlabel might
not be unique so UUID was chosen as the best way of picking the
desired partition to attach to a given mount point.

mount allows you to use name, label, partlabel.*UUID, ... at the
command line, or in /etc/fstab.

For the "normal" system admin everything just works.

For the more advanced sysadmin doing multi OS boot/installs
that are re-cycling partitions the UUID becomes a problem every time
a partition is formatted and is pretty human unfriendly as to
what the partition us used for.

Sysadmins using labels have to be very careful to never have the
same label on different partitions. Otherwise the last partition
found could me mounted on top of the first partition found. :(

I found that out the hard way the first time I brought up my backup
usb drive. Current / was switched to usb / when it came up. :-(

On 8/5/21 11:46 am, Bit Twister wrote:

>
> If you do upgrades instead of clean installs, you would see larger
> number of .rpmnew files.
>
> I always use the .rpmnew file and reapply my changes.
>

Understood
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faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.10.33-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso

On 8/5/21 12:15 pm, Aragorn wrote:

>
> It's "sddm.conf(.rpmnew)" — spelling matters to a computer! ;)

Yep! My typo Bad day

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faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.10.33-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso

On 8/5/21 1:42 pm, Aragorn wrote:
> On 08.05.2021 at 12:40, faeychild scribbled:
>
>> I still have trouble getting my head around, name, label, partlabel,
>> and Google searches don't make it any clearer.
>
> ° The NAME field refers to the device special file, e.g. /dev/sda1.
>
>
> ° A LABEL is a text string set in the filesystem itself as a (pseudo-)
> unique identifier, which can be used for mounting the filesystem,
> e.g. by way of /etc/fstab. An example of an /etc/fstab entry with
> a label follows below. ↓
>
> LABEL=myhomefs /home ext4 defaults 0 0
>

snipped for latter reading

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faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.10.33-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso