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From: "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: LABEL only 1 device
Date: 27 Feb 2012 11:27:00 +0100
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Hallo, Hugo,

Du meintest am 27.02.12:

>>>    mkfs.btrfs creates a new filesystem. The -L option sets the
>>>    label
>>> for the newly-created FS. It *cannot* be used to change the label
>>> of an existing FS.

>> The safest way may be deleting this option ... it seems to work as
>> expected only when I create a new FS on 1 disk/partition.

>    I've said this several times: Your expectations are wrong. You
> don't label partitions.

Yes - now I know.
But I'm afraid other people also expect wrong - when I use mkfs.ext[234]  
then this option works (in another way than with "mkfs.btrfs").

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut