Re: getting UUID and label of a filesystem

[Brian Tinsley <btlists@emageon.com>]

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On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 07:35, John Dalbec wrote:

> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > "mount" has not been updated to use libblkid.  I had always intended on
> > doing that, but it was never in the top 10 on my todo list.  I had agreement
> > in principle from Andries Brouwer to use a libblkid in mount instead of
> > having a duplicate set of LABEL/UUID parsing code there, but just lacked
> > the time/incentive to do that part.
> > 
> > It would probably benefit all reiserfs users to get this working, so that
> > you can finally mount reiserfs filesystems by LABEL/UUID, so if someone
> > has some time and wants to contribute back to reiserfs this is a fairly
> > easy project (not kernel hacking ;-).
> 
> Brian Tinsley wrote:
> > I use labels on SuSE with no problem. Could be an incompatibility with 
> > your mount command, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Has SuSE already updated the mount command to use libblkid then?  Or did they 
> insert duplicate LABEL/UUID parsing code for ReiserFS?
> John


There is a libblkid on my SuSE 9 laptop, but I don't see it on
Enterprise Server 8. The mount command on version 9 doesn't appear to be
linked to libblkid, so it's probably a safe assumption to say that they
modified the mount command on both.