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Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

From	Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?
Date	2019-02-27 21:30 +0100
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Le 27/02/2019 à 18:53, Richard Hector a écrit :
> On 27/02/19 9:57 PM, Reco wrote:
>>
>> A disklabel, as they call it in parted(8) applies to a disk device. Or a LUN.

Or any other partitionable block device, such as a software RAID array 
or a loop device.

>> A LABEL= is a filesystem attribute, it's impossible to have one without a filesystem.

A swap area can have a LABEL but is not a filesystem.

> It appears that GPT also supports a partition label, separate from any
> filesystem label, and different from a BSD disklabel.

In blkid terminology this is called PARTLABEL (along with PARTUUID) to 
distinguish them from filesystem LABEL/UUID.

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Label multimeanings : doc bug? Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2019-02-27 07:20 +0100
  Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-27 07:40 +0100
    Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2019-02-27 08:30 +0100
    Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2019-02-27 08:30 +0100
      Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-02-27 10:00 +0100
        Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-02-27 19:00 +0100
          Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-02-27 21:30 +0100
    Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-02-28 04:40 +0100

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