Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-21 Thread Trapper
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? ValHolla, on the web forum offered this

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-21 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. The one-liner reads info from mounted partitions only. You may need to adjust the

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-21 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:48:26PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Paul W. Frields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fedora 9, mtools may not be installed on many systems, but you can use /sbin/dosfslabel for the same purpose, I believe. Thanks for the tip. One minor problem with

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-20 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: snip Is there some other indexing program I should have tried in addition to man -k? locate label|grep bin - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-20 Thread Trapper
Aldo Foot wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhere along the line I saw a small script that provides a

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-19 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 16:07 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: To label a partition use e2label /dev/sdaX myLabel. And just for completeness, usb thumbdrives can be labeled with mtools' mlabel command. Doing so has the nice property of giving a meaningful name to the mount point when the

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-19 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Paul W. Frields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fedora 9, mtools may not be installed on many systems, but you can use /sbin/dosfslabel for the same purpose, I believe. Thanks for the tip. One minor problem with finding dosfslabel is that it is rather well hidden. I tried a man -k label to

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:01:30 -0700, gary artim wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-18 Thread Trapper
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-18 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhere along the line I saw a small script that provides a display of

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
To label a partition use e2label /dev/sdaX myLabel. And just for completeness, usb thumbdrives can be labeled with mtools' mlabel command. Doing so has the nice property of giving a meaningful name to the mount point when the thumbdrive is plugged into f9 and perhaps earlier. Ditto for CD's

fdisk and labels

2008-10-17 Thread Trapper
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? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: fdisk and labels

2008-10-17 Thread gary artim
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Trapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? -- fedora-list mailing list