Hallo, Hugo, Du meintest am 27.02.12:
>> But there's a small difference: >> >> mke2fs -L MyLabel /dev/sdn4 >> >> only sets/changes the label (ok - it tests the type of the partition >> and refuses labeling if the type doesn't fit). > OK, I have just tried this out. It does set the filesystem label. > It also wipes the filesystem, as I expected it to. You clearly aren't > doing this on existing filesystems with data in them. I should have tested it ... sorry. I've always labeled my ext[234] partitions with "e2label". And because I hadn't found such a simple command for btrfs I took "mkfs.btrfs -L" instead of "btrfs fi label <mountpoint>". Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html