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Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?



	Hi.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12:43PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas
> 
> Sure! 
> 
> My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has the LABEL= sense this other (disklabel) terminology, more common in the BSD world, seems to be an avoidable confusion.

I see nothing to be confused about.
A disklabel, as they call it in parted(8) applies to a disk device. Or a LUN.

A LABEL= is a filesystem attribute, it's impossible to have one without a filesystem.

Reco


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