Labeling Partitions

[Justin Bennett]

gotcha Thanks!

Justin

Cyber Source said:
> 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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