On 27/02/19 9:57 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12:43PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: >> Reco wrote: >> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas >> >> Sure! >> >> My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has >> the LABEL= sense this other (disklabel) terminology, more common in the BSD >> world, seems to be an avoidable confusion. > > I see nothing to be confused about. > A disklabel, as they call it in parted(8) applies to a disk device. Or a LUN. > > A LABEL= is a filesystem attribute, it's impossible to have one without a > filesystem.
It appears that GPT also supports a partition label, separate from any filesystem label, and different from a BSD disklabel. Richard
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