Re: Disklabel type
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 20:05, mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know what happened here.
> Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary
> ?
>
> root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda
> Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors
> Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x64b83d98
>
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 497664 243M 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 501758 468860927 468359170 223.3G 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 501760 468860927 468359168 223.3G 8e Linux LVM
>
>
> root@pumpkin:~# e2label /dev/sda
> e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda
> Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda
You're trying to apply a *filesystem* label to a block *device*.
That cannot work.
It's hard to know what your goal is there, but perhaps 'e2label /dev/sda1'
is what you actually want. The partition information above doesn't
suggest any other possibilites that would succeed.
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