something I don't understand

[Myles Green]

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:00:49 -0500
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 22:00 +0530, François Patte wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> > 
> > As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new
> > partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after
> > creating it with fdisk. I run
> > 
> > mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax
> > 
> > then added this line in fstab:
> > 
> > LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2
> 
> Ignoring the modifying the fstab for a minute. Others have addressed
> this. The label of a disk can be set or modified by tunefs command.

I think you meant the tune2fs command

For the OP:
as root do
tune2fs -L <label-name> <device>

eg:
tune2fs -L /home /dev/hde1

Myles
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