From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Changing label of a mounted XFS filesystem
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 13:29:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140703112911.GA9806@citd.de> (raw)
Hi
Is there a particular reason that the label of a mounted XFS fileystem
can't be changed?
The man-page of xfs_admin gives a blanket "Devices that are mounted
cannot be modified" but no explanation for why that is.
In my case it's the label of the root-filesystem i want to change. So to
change it i would have to boot the computer with some kind of live or
rescure-system. Or i would need to temporarily connect the device to
another computer, both aren't really nice hoops to jump through just to
change a few characters.
The only thing i can compare this to is ext2 and with ext2 (/boot
partition, so it really is ext2) i can change the label to my hearts
content, even the device is mounted.
For my case i could live with it if i could remount the filesystem RO,
change the label and then having to reboot the machine, still nicer than
the other 2 options.
--
Matthias
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next reply other threads:[~2014-07-03 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-03 11:29 Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2014-07-03 12:07 ` Changing label of a mounted XFS filesystem Jeff Liu
2014-07-03 14:14 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2014-07-03 23:12 ` Dave Chinner
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