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From: Christian Hesse <mail@earthworm.de>
Subject: Re: btrfs device management
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:19:16 +0200
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Cc: "Miguel Sousa Filipe" <miguel.filipe@gmail.com>,
	"Chris Mason" <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
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On Monday 09 June 2008, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
> > mkfs.btrfs already has a way to set the label of the filesystem.
> > mkfs.btrfs -L label /dev/xxxx
> >
> > btrfs-show will show you the labels of any existing filesystems.
>
> Can I mount by label ?
> something like:
> # mount /dev/btrfs/label /mountpoint

Yes, by mounting /dev/disk/by-label/label. That should work with every block 
device.
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Regards,
Chris