On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:21:47AM +0100, Ricky Tigg wrote: > Currently used terminology may had a role at the source of my confusion: > $ parted -h > (...) > name NUMBER NAME name partition NUMBER as NAME > > I know now – which doesn't mean I am clever –."name partition " was meant > to be interpreted, possibly implicitly, that way you depicted. I would > certainly have interpreted correctly a terminology such as the one > illustrated here: > $ parted -h > (...) > name NUMBER NAME name filesystem label NUMBER as > NAME
That would be incorrect. parted doesn't do anything with filesystem naming, only partition naming. eg. GPT supports partition names, but MSDOS does not. gparted combines features of parted with other filesystem features, allowing you to set the filesystem name, or the partition name. -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)
