Bug#278115: partman does not display or set labels

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

retitle 278115 Can not detect file system labels of existing file systems.
thanks

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:33:51AM +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> 
> While doing the partitioning I found that partman does not display 
> labels of existent partitions nor does it set them. This can help a lot 
> in configurations like my own (multiple *nix OSes)

I agree.

> Could the setting fail due to the fact that the type of the partition 
> was not originally set to Linux (83) ?

No.  This is because at present debian-installer lacks tools to detect
the label of existing file systems.

Anton Zinoviev