Re: Configurable persistent device names

[Richard Nelson <unixabg@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM, T o n g<mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:46:43 -0500, Richard Nelson wrote:
>
>> perhaps adding a boot param for persistent custom name that could be
>> appended to existing names would be an easy solution. Then the user who
>> wanted live-rw-sid would call the param with paramName=-sid and then we
>> could document how to name the partition live-rw-sid.
>>
>> Thoughts welcome.
>
> Hmm... maybe make paramName= a more meaning one, e.g., persistentTag or
> something? Actually, I was hoping to use boot param to give full names,
> not just tags, but that might be more than a quick fix.
>

Below is a commit to allow for persistent subText to be appended on
the name of the persistent storage see:

http://git.debian.net/?p=debian-live/live-initramfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=efed5a12052262426f1fc3c1202c60dcb8ff2e90