[Bug 157019] Re: use consistent, recognisable disk names

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[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  use consistent, recognisable disk names

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I installed Gutsy AMD64 on my laptop and lost a lot of time
  identifying the disk I wanted to install it to.

  I have partitioned my laptop harddisk into several equally sized
  partitions, to try different distributions on. In live CD mode,
  nautilus shows them as something like "10G disk", "10G disk [1]", "10G
  disk [2]", etc. Then when I mount them, they become "disk", "disk
  [1]", "disk [2]". In both cases I can't see which is which.

  Then when I fire up the installer, the partitioner (manual install)
  shows them as /media/hda#. So now I still don't know where my previous
  Ubuntu install is, that I want to overwrite. I even don't know which
  hda# number corresponds to which disk [#} number in Nautilus.

  I had to find the installed OS in /boot/Grub/menu.lst (maybe there's a
  better way, but this was the only one I could think of), check the
  used disk space with the Properties dialog, and match that used space
  with the ones reported by Ubiquity to discover which /media/hda#
  number was the Ubuntu one.

  Can ubiquity at least use the same naming strategy as Nautilus, or
  show the UUID so I know which is which? I'll file another bug about
  the naming in Nautilus, to suggest using some identification string on
  the disks to determine the OS (if any) is installed, and use that in
  the naming of the disk. Ubiquity might then follow whatever they
  decide in Nautilus...

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