Partition mounting under RHEL4

[Alfred Hovdestad]

e2label PARTITION

simply returns the label for the partition.

e2label PARTITION NEWLABEL

replaces the label on the partition.  It does not change any of the data 
on the partition.

    Alfred


Bruce W. Martin wrote:
> I will not be able to check until next week but I think this may be  
> enough hints to fix this.
> I will report back when I get more information and answers to your  
> questions.
> BTW, when using e2label to create a label is it destructive to the  
> partition? I don't want to lose data on these partitions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bruce
> 
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
> 
>> What does 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' return?  How about for sdb and sdc?   
>> Did you create partitions (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1)?
>>
>> If you did create partitions, what does 'e2label /dev/sda1'  return?  
>> If not, how about 'e2label /dev/sda'?
>>
>>    Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
>>    University of Saskatchewan
>>