Re: naming a partition after the fact?
On Sun 01 Oct 2023 at 09:28:37 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 07:21:06AM -0000, Robert Riding wrote:
> > It seems that there are various programs included in debian to create disk
> > labels for partitions, so that you may have a line in fstab that looks like
> > "LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 2" for instance.
> > These labels also appear in /dev/disk/by-label as links to disk partitions.
>
> What you describe are filesystem labels, for filesystems.
>
> This is an important distinction because a filesystem may be
> composed of multiple block devices, but it has just one label,
> because there is one filesystem. For example, a filesystem may be on
> an md (RAID) device, which is composed of multiple disk partitions.
>
> GPT partitions may *also* have names, which is what is causing some
> degree of confusion here, and so it is best to avoid saying
> "partition label" or "device label" when you actually mean
> "filesystem label".
And beware of the term disk label, when disklabel is the BSD world's
name for what we call a partition table.
Cheers,
David.
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