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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hacking linux-utils for swap label
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:37:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060413163724.GA16179@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060413123619.GA3778@rain.homenetwork>

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:36:19PM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote:
> May be I don't understand something, but there is
> http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
> and it contains blkid utility and which used for handle LABEL= in
> /etc/fstab,
> in spite of name it handles many types of file systems and swap
> partitions also.

vol_id in the udev package is much better than blkid, as it handles more
file system types, and is easier to intregrate into other programs and
scripts (it's also availble as a library.)  I would recommend it
instead.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-13 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-13  9:00 Hacking linux-utils for swap label Loiseleur Michel
2006-04-13 12:16 ` Erik Mouw
2006-04-13 12:34   ` Loiseleur Michel
2006-04-13 12:36 ` Evgeniy Dushistov
2006-04-13 13:12   ` Loiseleur Michel
2006-04-13 16:37   ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-04-13 16:52     ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-04-13 17:10       ` Greg KH
2006-04-13 18:19         ` Theodore Ts'o

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