I am using "disklabel:gpt" to create a GPT style partition table. You can also use "disklabel:msdos" to make the old style partition table. This belongs on your "disk_config" line before you specify partitions, file systems, etc.
Oh, when I heard that, I thought it was a way to label a partition -- which makes no sense since it is part of the disk configuration. I should have made the connection because I've been going into parted and entering a mklabel command to create a partition table.
It is kind of confusing though. You do a mklabel, to make a partition table. If you want to make a partition lable, you do something else.
You say label, I say table. Lets call the whole thing off.
