Labeling Partitions

[Cyber Source]

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On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 22:27, Conrad Kreyling wrote:
> Heh, you learn something new every day. I'm kind of curious as to how
> other distrobutions handle the LABEL support. Debian ships with support,
> but it's not enabled by default. We've heard how RH handles it. Anyone
> out there running Gentoo?
> 
> Con
> 
> * Cyber Source (peter at thecybersource.com) wrote:
> > 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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> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
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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
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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> "All creature will die, and all the things will be broken.
>   THAT'S the law of samurai!"
>     -- Haomaru, Samurai Spirits