On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:28, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 05.08.2004 schrieb Rodney Gordon II um 16:42: > > > So I assume it's an ext thing only? Not that I have other filesystems, just > > wondering.. > > > -r > > As far as I know those labels are not tied to any filesystem, nor > dependent on any. If you use i.e. Partition Magic you will find the > possibility to set a label, so does the old fdisk on DOS. > > The Linux kernel requires BSD disk label support compiled in > (CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y) to use the labels with fstab and how it is used > as kernel command line in the grub.conf on Fedora (Redhat) systems. BSD labels have nothing to do with ext2/3 partition labels. They are a completely different thing. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
