From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: /dev/sd* Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:47:18 -0400 Message-ID: <1155919638.24907.54.camel@mindpipe> References: <1155144599.5729.226.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809212124.GC3691@stusta.de> <1155160903.5729.263.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809221857.GG3691@stusta.de> <20060810123643.GC25187@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> <44DB289A.4060503@garzik.org> <44E3DFD6.4010504@PicturesInMotion.net> <44E42900.1030905@PicturesInMotion.net> <44E56804.1080906@bfh.ch> <1155913072.28764.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:52630 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751420AbWHRQqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:46:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Alan Cox , Seewer Philippe , Jeff Garzik , Gabor Gombas , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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