Re: gnome-disk-utility User Session Defaults issue

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 09:59 -0400, Default User wrote:
> Hi David.
> 
> Yes, I made the labels for the  partitions during the original
> installation:
> 
> /dev/sda1 = /  (primary partition)
> /dev/sda2 =     (extended partition)
> /dev/sda5 = swap (logical partition)
> /dev/sda6 = /home (logical partition)
> 
> So /dev/sda2 has no label, as it is just an extended partition, which
> "holds" logical partitions:
> /dev/sda5
> /dev/sda6

It strikes me that using '/' in a label might cause problems. E.g.
something (kernel? udev?) makes disks appear under /dev/disk/by-label/
where each entry is the label name. If that label contains a '/' then
it can't appear there, or if it does, it will have a mangled name to
remove the '/'.

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Tixy