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| From | Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Label multimeanings : doc bug? |
| Date | 2019-02-27 19:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <xwbES-1yU-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 27/02/19 9:57 PM, Reco wrote: > 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. It appears that GPT also supports a partition label, separate from any filesystem label, and different from a BSD disklabel. Richard
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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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