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Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?

From Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug?
Date 2019-02-27 10:00 +0100
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	Hi.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12:43PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas
> 
> Sure! 
> 
> My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has the LABEL= sense this other (disklabel) terminology, more common in the BSD world, seems to be an avoidable confusion.

I see nothing to be confused about.
A disklabel, as they call it in parted(8) applies to a disk device. Or a LUN.

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

Reco

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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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