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Re: naming a partition after the fact?

From Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: naming a partition after the fact?
Date 2023-09-30 00:10 +0200
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> If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the
> use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure

FWIW, I use "partition" labels (more specifically LVM names) because
they have the advantage of working the same no matter what the partition
holds, so I don't need to remember which command to use for
which filesystem.


        Stefan

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naming a partition after the fact? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-29 21:00 +0200
  Re: naming a partition after the fact? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-29 21:20 +0200
  Re: naming a partition after the fact? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-29 21:20 +0200
    Re: naming a partition after the fact? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-29 22:00 +0200
      Re: naming a partition after the fact? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-29 22:10 +0200
      Re: naming a partition after the fact? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-09-30 05:40 +0200
        Re: naming a partition after the fact? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-30 15:40 +0200
    Re: naming a partition after the fact? Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-09-29 22:20 +0200
      Re: naming a partition after the fact? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-29 22:40 +0200
        Re: naming a partition after the fact? Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-09-29 23:20 +0200
        Re: naming a partition after the fact? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-09-30 00:10 +0200
          Re: naming a partition after the fact? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-30 02:10 +0200
            Re: naming a partition after the fact? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-30 09:30 +0200
              Re: naming a partition after the fact? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-30 13:30 +0200
                Re: naming a partition after the fact? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-30 16:00 +0200
                Re: naming a partition after the fact? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-09-30 20:20 +0200
                Re: naming a partition after the fact? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-10-01 01:50 +0200
            Re: naming a partition after the fact? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-09-30 17:20 +0200
              Re: naming a partition after the fact? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-09-30 20:20 +0200
        Re: naming a partition after the fact? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-09-30 05:20 +0200
  Re: naming a partition after the fact? Robert Riding <reriding@xmission.com> - 2023-10-01 09:50 +0200
    Re: naming a partition after the fact? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-10-01 11:30 +0200
      Re: naming a partition after the fact? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-01 17:40 +0200

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