How to edit partition labels?

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:28, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 05.08.2004 schrieb Rodney Gordon II um 16:42:
> 
> > So I assume it's an ext thing only? Not that I have other filesystems, just
> > wondering..
> 
> > -r
> 
> 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.

BSD labels have nothing to do with ext2/3 partition labels. They are a
completely different thing.
-- 
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>