[KLUG Members] Partition Label

[Adam Williams]

>>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".  

On xfs do xfs_admin -L {label} to set the label and xfs_admin -l to show
the label.

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

Me too, labels bad.  Someones really bad idea. Makes more sense when
using LVM, as the label IS the device.