[ale] How to see and minipulate partition labels

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 04 October 2002 03:55 pm, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
> for a new fs:	mke2fs  ... [ -L volume-label ]
> for an existing fs:	tune2fs ... [-L volume-label ]

Thanks.  And Jonathan Glass pointed out the existance of e2label.

ALE members are awsome (he said modestly)!

--Michael

> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>
> #I've noticed that recent distributions (RH 7.3, for instance) don't
> #mount partitions in /etc/fstab acconding to the device, but by
> label. #So, for instance, I have a line like:
> #LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults    
> 1 2 #in my /etc/fstab.
> #
> #I can't figure out how to create labels, or even how to read them. 
> Is #it a secret thing in fdisk or parted?  Which FM should I R? #
> #Thanks,
> #
> #Michael
> #
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