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Re: naming a partition after the fact?

From Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: naming a partition after the fact?
Date 2023-09-30 02:10 +0200
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Hello,

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 06:01:09PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.

Sorry, being familiar both with partition labels, and LVM, I don't
know what an "LVM name" is in relation to a partition label. Can you
elaborate?

In my understanding, an LVM name is just the name of an LVM device
like /dev/vgname/lvname whereas a partition label specifically is an
attribute of a GPT partition entry:

    https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-name-partition

So in my understanding, these things are not equivalent concepts.

As evidenced by this thread lots of people confuse partition
names/labels for filesystem labels, even though they are distinct
things, which was why I asked Gene if he really meant a partition
label when he wrote that.

Thanks,
Andy

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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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