From: "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen@t-online.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LABEL only 1 device
Date: 27 Feb 2012 22:59:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C3f55qiy1uB@helmut.hullen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120227214536.GB4481@carfax.org.uk>
Hallo, Hugo,
Du meintest am 27.02.12:
>> 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).
> OK, I have just tried this out. It does set the filesystem label.
> It also wipes the filesystem, as I expected it to. You clearly aren't
> doing this on existing filesystems with data in them.
I should have tested it ... sorry.
I've always labeled my ext[234] partitions with "e2label".
And because I hadn't found such a simple command for btrfs I took
"mkfs.btrfs -L" instead of "btrfs fi label <mountpoint>".
Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-27 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-26 15:23 LABEL only 1 device Helmut Hullen
2012-02-26 15:30 ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-26 16:12 ` Helmut Hullen
2012-02-26 16:44 ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-26 16:57 ` Helmut Hullen
2012-02-26 17:14 ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-26 18:11 ` Helmut Hullen
2012-02-27 6:44 ` Helmut Hullen
2012-02-27 10:11 ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-27 10:27 ` Helmut Hullen
2012-02-27 16:48 ` Duncan
2012-02-27 21:15 ` Helmut Hullen
2012-02-27 21:23 ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-27 21:33 ` Felix Blanke
2012-02-27 21:45 ` Hugo Mills
2012-02-27 21:59 ` Helmut Hullen [this message]
2012-02-26 18:07 ` Duncan
2012-02-28 22:35 ` Karel Zak
2012-03-01 0:54 ` Duncan
2012-02-27 12:06 ` David Sterba
2012-02-27 12:24 ` Helmut Hullen
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