From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/sd*
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:47:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155919638.24907.54.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608181748280.11320@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-18 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 17:29 Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Alan Cox
2006-08-09 20:16 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-10 6:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 6:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-10 6:25 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-11 15:47 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-15 13:31 ` Matthieu CASTET
2006-08-15 13:35 ` Tejun Heo
2006-08-15 14:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09 21:21 ` /dev/sd* Adrian Bunk
2006-08-09 21:40 ` /dev/sd* Mark Lord
2006-08-09 22:01 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-09 22:18 ` /dev/sd* Adrian Bunk
2006-08-10 1:44 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-10 6:19 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-10 4:46 ` /dev/sd* Greg KH
2006-08-10 12:36 ` /dev/sd* Gabor Gombas
2006-08-10 12:37 ` /dev/sd* Jeff Garzik
2006-08-17 3:17 ` /dev/sd* Lee Trager
2006-08-17 7:58 ` /dev/sd* Michael Tokarev
2006-08-17 8:10 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-17 8:42 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-17 8:01 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-17 8:29 ` /dev/sd* Lee Trager
2006-08-17 9:21 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 7:11 ` /dev/sd* Seewer Philippe
2006-08-18 8:52 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 9:19 ` /dev/sd* Tejun Heo
2006-08-18 14:57 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-18 15:51 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 16:47 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-08-18 17:02 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-21 6:04 ` /dev/sd* Lee Trager
2006-08-21 6:17 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-18 12:45 ` /dev/sd* Bill Davidsen
2006-08-18 15:48 ` /dev/sd* Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-19 0:15 ` /dev/sd* Gabor Gombas
2006-08-17 8:45 ` /dev/sd* Alan Cox
2006-08-10 6:24 ` Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel Andi Kleen
2006-08-10 12:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-10 12:20 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-10 13:59 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 15:54 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-10 19:02 ` Jason Lunz
2006-08-10 19:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-08-17 3:26 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-17 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-17 9:52 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 9:45 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-17 11:51 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 3:38 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-18 3:57 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-18 16:01 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 19:22 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-18 20:50 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-19 8:17 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-21 0:44 ` Lee Trager
2006-08-10 19:47 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 19:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-08-11 15:48 ` Mark Lord
2006-08-10 22:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-08-24 3:31 ` Albert Lee
2006-08-24 3:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-24 4:13 ` Doug Maxey
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