Le primidi 21 brumaire, an CCXXV, David Wright a écrit : > Any reference. You see, I find label a very slippery word. > You can label a disk at almost every level: a sticky label, True, but not really relevant. > a disklabel (partition table), This is BSD slang. But this was what I was referring to. > a filesystem label, Indeed. That is the most common one. > a volume label > (perhaps those two are equivalent), I do not think "volume" means anything in the Linux world. > and whatever is handled by > devlabel (which might be historic). It looks like a tool to make symlinks based on the above labels. > So I'm unsure what you mean by a partition label, where it's > stored, and how it differs from a filesystem label. Well, the filesystem label is stored in the filesystem metadata, i.e. probably the superblock. The partition label is stored in the partitions metadata, i.e. the "partition table". > Is it new-fangled? MBR-style partition tables do not contain labels, if that is what you are asking. But GPT does.
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