Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some other mechanism I should know about? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:15:13PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some

Re: Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Bob McGowan
Hendrik Boom wrote: I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some other mechanism I should know about?

Re: Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:15:13PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some

Re: Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:15:13PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some