Hi, On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:00:01 +0200, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all; > > I recall something I haven't used in a decade or more, but we used to > have a journal something or other that could rename a partition, and I > need something like it. debian 12 on an rpi4b and while a sudo -E > gparted brings up gparted on the named device, the "name partition" is > greyed out in the menu's. Do we now have something that can LABEL a > partition on debian arm64's w/o disturbing the data on it? > > Tnx all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. It seems that there are various programs included in debian to create disk labels for partitions, so that you may have a line in fstab that looks like "LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 2" for instance. These labels also appear in /dev/disk/by-label as links to disk partitions. RER