Hello,
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 06:01:09PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the
use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure
FWIW, I use "partition" labels (more specifically LVM names) because
they have the advantage of working the same no matter what the partition
holds, so I don't need to remember which command to use for
which filesystem.
Sorry, being familiar both with partition labels, and LVM, I don't
know what an "LVM name" is in relation to a partition label. Can you
elaborate?
In my understanding, an LVM name is just the name of an LVM device
like /dev/vgname/lvname whereas a partition label specifically is an
attribute of a GPT partition entry:
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-name-partition
So in my understanding, these things are not equivalent concepts.
As evidenced by this thread lots of people confuse partition
names/labels for filesystem labels, even though they are distinct
things, which was why I asked Gene if he really meant a partition
label when he wrote that.