Hello,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 09:37:58AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas.
As an aside, I do this all the time and it works fine.
The logical volumes are exported to virtual machines as their main disk,
so they may appear as
Le 27/02/2019 à 18:53, Richard Hector a écrit :
On 27/02/19 9:57 PM, Reco wrote:
A disklabel, as they call it in parted(8) applies to a disk device. Or a LUN.
Or any other partitionable block device, such as a software RAID array
or a loop device.
A LABEL= is a filesystem attribute, it's
On 27/02/19 9:57 PM, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12:43PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote:
>> Reco wrote:
>> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas
>>
>> Sure!
>>
>> My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has
>> the
Hi.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:12:43PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas
>
> Sure!
>
> My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has the
> LABEL= sense this other (disklabel)
Reco wrote:
Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas
Sure!
My point was however that for a tool (eg gparted) where label already has the
LABEL= sense this other (disklabel) terminology, more common in the BSD world,
seems to be an avoidable confusion.
And the space between "disk" and "label" hardly helps any!
Hi.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:02:24PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote:
> My question: In his parted output he has
>
> Error: /dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-home: unrecognised disk label
>
> In which sense is this 'label' used??
In this context, a disklabel is a "partition table type", like "msdos"
Ref: This stackexchange post:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/503241/323121
Context: Theres this guy who's really struggling with disk partitioning LVM etc
concepts. That point is not directly relevant to this question.
My answer on that post tries to clarify that 'label' can mean 3 things
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