Re: PartitionLabel property

2009-10-07 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:46 +0200, Davide Bettio wrote: > Hi, > > > That the old and stupid MSDOS partitions don't support anything useful > >is no reason not to support partition labels. You might want to read: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries_.28LBA_2

Re: PartitionLabel property

2009-10-07 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, > These values are just not set for MSDOS part tables, because that old > stuff does not support it. That's how things work. We don't have any > ext3 specific uuid properties, just because iso9660 does not have > uuids. Also partition labels have zero in common with filesystem > labels, they n

Re: PartitionLabel property

2009-10-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 14:46, Davide Bettio wrote: >> That the old and stupid MSDOS partitions don't support anything useful >>is no reason not to support partition labels. You might want to read: >>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries_.28LBA_2.E2.80.9333.29 > > We

Re: PartitionLabel property

2009-10-07 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, > That the old and stupid MSDOS partitions don't support anything useful >is no reason not to support partition labels. You might want to read: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries_.28LBA_2.E2.80.9333.29 We can't suppose that the user is using a GUID parti

Re: PartitionLabel property

2009-10-07 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 14:25, Davide Bettio wrote: > I can't understand what PartitionLabel property is meant to be. > Usually labels are stored in the filesystem and moreover the most common > partition table type hasn't got any support for labels. > I suggest you to re

PartitionLabel property

2009-10-07 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, I can't understand what PartitionLabel property is meant to be. Usually labels are stored in the filesystem and moreover the most common partition table type hasn't got any support for labels. I suggest you to rename it to Label or to FilesystemLabel. Bye, Dav