Are volume labels a file-system thing?

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Subject: Are volume labels a file-system thing?
From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:15:13 +0000 (UTC)
Message-id: <[🔎] f1vcu1$phn$1@sea.gmane.org>

I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels
have 'e2' in their names, like e2label.  Does this mean that I can label
my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them?  Or is
there some other mechanism I should know about?

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