Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

David Wright wrote:
> So I'm unsure what you mean by a partition label, where it's
> stored, and how it differs from a filesystem label.

See "Partition name (36 UTF-16LE code units)" in
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries

This describes the GPT partition table which is the newer of the
two usual partition table formats. Lots of partitions are possible
on a disk.

The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical
ones in one of the primary partitions. Also known as "MSDOS"
partition table. No partition names there.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas