[KLUG Members] Partition Label

[Bruce Smith]

> Booting up on a new install after attaching my old hard drive chokes. 
> This is because the label on the partition is conflicting.  How do I
> change the label.  fdisk has two label options, Sun and BSD.  Which is
> it.

If the filesystem is ext2/3, I use the command "e2label".  

You don't need to specify any options like SUN/BSD/....

> How do I find out what the label is for an existing partition.

"e2label"  Pay attention!   :-)

Personally I've given up on labels, and specify devices in 
/etc/fstab instead.  More straight forward, IMO.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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