On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 09:59 -0400, Default User wrote: > Hi David. > > Yes, I made the labels for the partitions during the original > installation: > > /dev/sda1 = / (primary partition) > /dev/sda2 = (extended partition) > /dev/sda5 = swap (logical partition) > /dev/sda6 = /home (logical partition) > > So /dev/sda2 has no label, as it is just an extended partition, which > "holds" logical partitions: > /dev/sda5 > /dev/sda6
It strikes me that using '/' in a label might cause problems. E.g. something (kernel? udev?) makes disks appear under /dev/disk/by-label/ where each entry is the label name. If that label contains a '/' then it can't appear there, or if it does, it will have a mangled name to remove the '/'. -- Tixy
