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From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
Subject: Re: LABEL only 1 device
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:23:10 +0000
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:15:00PM +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Du meintest am 27.02.12:
> 
> >>>    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").
> 
> > AFAIK, it works in the same way... that is, it labels the, in that
> > case, ext2/3/4 filesystem, in this case (mkfs.btrfs), btrfs
> > filesystem.
> 
> > From the manpages:
> 
> > mkfs.btrfs (aka mkbtrfs):
> 
> >        -L, --label name
> >               Specify a label for the filesystem.
> 
> > mkfs.ext2/3/4 (aka mke2fs):
> 
> >        -L new-volume-label
> >               Set  the  volume  label  for the filesystem to
> > 	      new-volume-label.  The maximum length of the
> >               volume label is 16 bytes.
> 
> But there's a small difference:
> 
>         mke2fs -L MyLabel /dev/sdn4
> 
> only sets/changes the label (ok - it tests the type of the partition and  
> refuses labeling if the type doesn't fit).

   That feels really weird. It wouldn't ever occur to me to look at a
mkfs tool to relabel a filesystem without destroying the data on it. I
view this behaviour as a bug.

   Hugo.

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