From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailout09.t-online.de ([194.25.134.84]:37673 "EHLO mailout09.t-online.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755264Ab3AEMpZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2013 07:45:25 -0500 Date: 05 Jan 2013 13:44:00 +0100 From: Hullen@t-online.de (Helmut Hullen) To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201301051236.37875.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Subject: Re: Option LABEL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: helmut@hullen.de Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hallo, Martin, Du meintest am 05.01.13: >> No - I don't rely on such an assumption. >> In the special case I'm just working with I want to use the whole >> disk only for btrfs. >> >> In other cases I work with partitions, and there is just the same >> problem: at least "blkid" and "findfs" don't work when more than 1 >> device has the same label (p.e. /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdc5). It seems to be a problem which is related to "blkid". > Helmut, it has been shown here in the thread, that they *do* work in > newer versions. > If they don?t work for you please compare your version with the ones > that do work and file a bug report for your Linux distribution. blkid from util-linux 2.21.2 (libblkid 2.21.0, 25-May-2012 findfs from the same "util-linux" packet kernel 3.6.11 Is that new enough? ------------------------------------------- Reproducable: USB stick with 3 btrfs partitions cold start without stick, logged in as "root" blkid works Stick inserted: blkid works fdisk -l works btrfs device scan works blkid works btrfs-show works blkid hangs blkid /dev/sdb1 works I don't know who may be responsible for this problem - btrfs or blkid or both. Viele Gruesse! Helmut