How to edit partition labels?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Brad Smith wrote:

> and someone else wrote:

>> As far as I know those labels are not tied to any filesystem, nor
>> dependent on any. If you use i.e. Partition Magic you will find the
>> possibility to set a label, so does the old fdisk on DOS.
>>
>> 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