Labeling Partitions

[Cyber Source]

a blurb from "man e2label", notice the part at the bottom.             
E2LABEL(8)
NAME
       e2label − Change the label on an ext2 filesystem

SYNOPSIS
       e2label device [ new‐label ]

DESCRIPTION
       e2label  will  display  or  change  the  filesystem  label  on
the ext2       filesystem located on device.

       If the optional argument new‐label is not present, e2label will 
simply       display the current filesystem label.

       If  the  optional  argument new‐label is present, then e2label
will set       the filesystem label to be new‐label.  Ext2 filesystem
labels can be at       most  16  characters  long;  if new‐label is
longer than 16 characters,       e2label will truncate it and print a
warning message.

       It is also possible to set the filesystem label using the −L
option  of       tune2fs(8).

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 09:26, Justin Bennett wrote:
> yeah this is my extent of my understanding of it as well, It's a cool
> thing, I just was wondering how I could assign a label to a new partition
> for a new drive post install. Tony told me you can do it during
> partitioning, too late for that, but maybe there is a utility for assiging
> a label to an existing partition, was just wondering....
> 
> Justin
> 
>  Cyber Source said:
> > Hello Justin,
> >   Bob Meyer and I briefly talked about this one night. Labels are pretty
> > cool in that the "label", say /boot does not have to be tied to a
> > particular piece of hardware, be it /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda5. How you can
> > determine which label points to which device, you may be able to "ls -l
> > "label", I'm not sure, have not look into this further. I do know that
> > the current man pages on fstab delve into the subject. Hope I was a bit
> > of a help.
> >> When you install a newer distribution (redhat 8.0), the fstab doesn't
> >> have partition info in it it looks like:
> >> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults 1 1
> >> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
> >>    1 2 none                    /dev/pts                devpts
> >> gid=5,mode=620  0 0 none                    /proc
> >> proc
> >>    defaults        0 0 none                    /dev/shm
> >> tmpfs   defaults        0 0 LABEL=/tmp              /tmp
> >>    ext3    defaults        1 2 LABEL=/usr              /usr
> >>       ext3    defaults        1 2 LABEL=/var              /var
> >>          ext3    defaults        1 2
> >>
> >>
> >> I was wondering where the correlation between LABEL=/ and /dev/sda1
> >> is?
> >>
> >> Justin
> >>
> >> Conrad Kreyling said:
> >>> I'm kind of confused by the question itself. You might be looking for
> >>> a line in /etc/fstab like:
> >>>
> >>> /dev/md0      /export     < fs type here >  auto  0 0
> >>>
> >>> to use a simple `mount /export` command. Help any?
> >>>
> >>> Con
> >>>
> >>> * Justin Bennett (Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com) wrote:
> >>>> quick one, how do you label a partition, when you install the new
> >>>> Distributions your fstab is all LABEL=/tmp, ect. I added a raid
> >>>> array and had to add it to fstab as /dev/md0. how would i go about
> >>>> creating a label for /dev/md0 as say /export?
> >>>>
> >>>> Justin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
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> >>>> Justin Bennett
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> >>>> Network Administrator
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> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >> Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
> >> Network Administrator
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> >> 8989 Sheridan Dr
> >> Clarence, NY 14031
> >> 716-631-0100 ext 215
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> >
> >
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> -------------------------------------------
> Justin Bennett
> Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
> Network Administrator
> Dynabrade Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr
> Clarence, NY 14031
> 716-631-0100 ext 215
>