A warning if « special » characters are used in labels might be a first step in the right direction.
Once again accented letters and diacritics are not the problem here but characters that might get « translated » as « functions » such as / \ * and few others. Only those. Space character is rather well managed by auto-completion in most CLI. Mostly. It's not least common denominator but only the few characters that could be « risky ». All other characters remain possible. And it's not only about « uneducated user », it's just safer for everyone by making labels more robust and « foolproof ». But hey am just the stupid user ( sheep ) and you are the upstream maintainer ( god ). You could make e2label smarter but you can't make users smarter after all… So be it ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2027979 Title: won't warn neither prevent usage of « risky » characters in labels Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, if naming or renaming an EXT volume, e2label lets you use any character, including / or * or $ ( and probably others, like accented letters é è à ) I'd expect at least a warning if such are to be found in a label name. Or better, it should not be possible to use those in label names. Example : a@p:~$ sudo e2label /dev/sdb12 /Ti\$* a@p:~$ a@p:~$ sudo e2label /dev/sdb12 /Ti$* a@p:~$ a@p:~$ lsblk -fe7 | grep sdb12 └─sdb12 ext4 1.0 /Ti$* f583e9b0-f1de-438f-8da8-c1e070407628 a@p:~$ coming from https://forum.ubuntu- fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=22692892#p22692892 ( french ) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/2027979/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
