On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Yep. I use e2label. Works fine with ext2 and ext3 partitions. One > > command to read the label, another to write it. Easy. > > So, mkreiserfs --label My_Home /dev/hda5 will not wipe out my > partition, right? I don't want to cause unnecessary harm to my > machine . . .
mkreiserfs will in all likely-hood wipe out the file system on that partition, as it's job is to make filesystems. The label is a nice side-effect that it can do while making an fs You want reiserfstune -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
