How to edit partition labels?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:47:47 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Do, den 05.08.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 20:23:
> 
> > >> The Linux kernel requires BSD disk label support compiled in
> > >> (CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y) to use the labels with fstab and how it is used
> > >> as kernel command line in the grub.conf on Fedora (Redhat) systems.
> > 
> > really?  i've used e2label many times for labelling filesystems, and 
> > i've never built a kernel with BSD labelling.  are you sure about 
> > this?  (time to go RTFS, i guess.)
> > 
> > rday
> 
> Hm, I am becoming a bit uncertain when you say that the labels in fstab
> work for you on a custom kernel without BSD disklabel support and
> because I can't find the source of my "knowledge". If it would be not a
> big deal and not last that long, I would compile a kernel without
> support for BSD disklabels and try it out. So for now I hope someone
> with better and certain knowledge about the topic can state about it
> without trial and error.

BSD disk labels are not the same than ext2/ext3 volume labels.  Robert is
right. ext2/ext3 labels are a superblock thing (you can display the label
with "dumpe2fs", too).