Re: Partition labels containing a slash in their names

2011-10-28 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John Wendel said: > But, a partition label isn't a filename, is it? Just curious. No, but the entries in /dev/disk/by-label are. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- test

Re: Partition labels containing a slash in their names

2011-10-28 Thread John Wendel
On 10/28/2011 08:14 AM, John Morris wrote: On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:22 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi, I'm having 2 partions on /dev/sda (sda7 and sda8) labelled as "/F15" and "/F16". I wonder about the names in /dev/disk/by-label: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27 20:12 \x2fF15 -> ../../sda7

Re: Partition labels containing a slash in their names

2011-10-28 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:22 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having 2 partions on /dev/sda (sda7 and sda8) labelled as "/F15" and > "/F16". I wonder about the names in /dev/disk/by-label: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27 20:12 \x2fF15 -> ../../sda7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27

Partition labels containing a slash in their names

2011-10-28 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, I'm having 2 partions on /dev/sda (sda7 and sda8) labelled as "/F15" and "/F16". I wonder about the names in /dev/disk/by-label: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27 20:12 \x2fF15 -> ../../sda7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 27 20:12 \x2fF16 -> ../../sda8 I know that \x2f is equivalent to "/", so