Re: naming a partition after the fact?
Hi,
On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:00:01 +0200, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I recall something I haven't used in a decade or more, but we used to
> have a journal something or other that could rename a partition, and I
> need something like it. debian 12 on an rpi4b and while a sudo -E
> gparted brings up gparted on the named device, the "name partition" is
> greyed out in the menu's. Do we now have something that can LABEL a
> partition on debian arm64's w/o disturbing the data on it?
>
> Tnx all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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.
RER
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