LABEL's
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Aug 31 00:01:55 UTC 2007
> Alas, now that I am making 2 hard drives with the exact same F7 on
> them LABEL is causing me all kinds of problems. Even the F7 Rescue
> complained :-)
You used dd so you copied the label. Using tools like rsync -a to make
copies would have been saner.
> So the only fix is for me to go back to exact partition names so I
> can continue to get my understanding of dd complete. I think dd will
> work fine IFF the partition your sending data to is larger than the one
> it is coming from, and you do NOT put a file system in the destination
> partition.
dd will byte copy so you get exact copies in size, label, attributes, the
lot.
tune2fs -L DerekTheDisk /dev/whatever
will change the label on that volume to DerekTheDisk (or FreddieFlash or
whatever you put for up to 16 chars)
Alan
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