The term "disk label" is very unintuitive for people with Windows
background. It sounds almost like "volume label" — but means an entirely
different thing! I was close to erasing the partition table once because
of this similarity when all I wanted was changing a label for a
partition.

Microsoft calls this "master boot record (MBR) partition style"
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771486.aspx) or "master
boot record (MBR) disk" (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc725671.aspx)

I believe, "MBR" should be mentioned in some way, as people familiar
with Windows systems are most likely to deal with this partitioning
style — and that is the term they are going to look for.

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'create msdos label' in partitioner unclear
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32479
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