How to edit partition labels?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 5 18:23:30 UTC 2004
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Brad Smith wrote:
> and someone else wrote:
>> As far as I know those labels are not tied to any filesystem, nor
>> dependent on any. If you use i.e. Partition Magic you will find the
>> possibility to set a label, so does the old fdisk on DOS.
>>
>> The Linux kernel requires BSD disk label support compiled in
>> (CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y) to use the labels with fstab and how it is used
>> as kernel command line in the grub.conf on Fedora (Redhat) systems.
really? i've used e2label many times for labelling filesystems, and
i've never built a kernel with BSD labelling. are you sure about
this? (time to go RTFS, i guess.)
rday
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