Re: fdisk and labels

Aldo Foot wrote:

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Trapper <trapper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Schwendt wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:01:30 -0700, gary artim wrote:

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Trapper <trapper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Somewhere along the line I saw a small script that provides a display of
label information as a part of "fdisk -l" results. My searches have
proved
fruitless. Anyone recall such a script?

do you mean /sbin/e2label /dev/yourdevname

or /sbin/blkid

Both are not part of fdisk -l results, though. ;)

What I mean is this:

When I "fdisk" -l I get:

/dev/sdb1      1         338     2714953+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sdb2   *  339        5560    41945715   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3      5561       12087    52428127+  83  Linux

There's a crafty little script running around somewhere that gives you the
fdisk readout plus the partition labels when you run it:

/dev/sdb1      1         338     2714953+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sdb2   *  339        5560    41945715   83  Linux    Fedora9-32
/dev/sdb3      5561       12087    52428127+  83  Linux   Fedora9-64

I "think" someone provided this in the web forum but I've been unable to
locate it.

Trapper

The "mount -l" command gives you all the info you want, not in nice format.
The next command is just one way of doing it:

mount -l | grep dev | egrep -v 'tmpfs|pts' | awk '{print $1"\t" $3"\t" $5"\t" $6"\t" $7}'

the output gives you the device name, mount point, fs type, mount
options and filesystem label if it exists.

To label a partition use "e2label /dev/sdaX myLabel".
The e2label man page has more info.

Well, mount -l gives me output but mount -l | grep dev | egrep -v
'tmpfs|pts' | awk '{print $1"\t" $3"\t" $5"\t" $6"\t" $7}' gives me
nothing at all.

As for e2label, I've been using it for years and have no difficulty
actually labeling partitions. My desire here is to get a listing of all
dev labels on all hd's on the machine.

As someone suggested, I tried /sbin/blkid. Results are mixed. It appears
that it also provides previous and now nonexistent partition information.

Whatever, I am still searching the old web forum threads to see if I can
locate the script I am wanting.

Thanks all,
   Trapper

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