On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 20:53:17 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 21 brumaire, an CCXXV, David Wright a écrit : > > Any reference. You see, I find label a very slippery word. > > You can label a disk at almost every level: a sticky label, > > True, but not really relevant. > > > a disklabel (partition table), > > This is BSD slang. But this was what I was referring to. > > > a filesystem label, > > Indeed. That is the most common one. > > > a volume label > > (perhaps those two are equivalent), > > I do not think "volume" means anything in the Linux world. > > > and whatever is handled by > > devlabel (which might be historic). > > It looks like a tool to make symlinks based on the above labels. > > > So I'm unsure what you mean by a partition label, where it's > > stored, and how it differs from a filesystem label. > > Well, the filesystem label is stored in the filesystem metadata, i.e. > probably the superblock. The partition label is stored in the partitions > metadata, i.e. the "partition table". > > > Is it new-fangled? > > MBR-style partition tables do not contain labels, if that is what you > are asking. But GPT does.
May I say I appreciated the correction about labels being applied to file systems and not partitions. I'd done a copy and paste (with a change to a spelling) without any thought in mind to disabuse the OP about the technical aspects. It seemed more important to get him on the road. But, this is getting interesting. -- Brian.
