How to edit partition labels?

Thu Aug 5 15:28:31 UTC 2004

Am Do, den 05.08.2004 schrieb Rodney Gordon II um 16:42:

> So I assume it's an ext thing only? Not that I have other filesystems, just
> wondering..

> -r

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.

Alexander

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