On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:38:57PM +0100, Ricky Tigg wrote: > Hi. *Parted* v. 3.2 claims *msdos disk labels do not support partition name* > .Commands executed in interactive *Parted*-shell: > > (parted) mklabel msdos > (parted) mkpart primary ext4 0% 100% > (parted) name 1 USB > Error: msdos disk labels do not support partition name. > > I then had to rely on *Gparted* v. 0.33 for creating a *partition name*: > > $ blkid | grep sdc > /dev/sdc1: LABEL="USB" UUID="2b491b98-46e8-42fe-9e24-96e115532d99" > TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="2c168f1d-01"
This is a filesystem label, not a partition name. MSDOS has no space in the partition table to store names. -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)
