linux-kernel - Re: Linux & FAT32 label

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Date:   Sun, 5 Nov 2017 15:56:03 +0100
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Andreas Bombe <aeb@...ian.org>, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
        util-linux@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrius Štikonas <andrius@...konas.eu>,
        Curtis Gedak <gedakc@...il.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: Linux & FAT32 label

On Sunday 05 November 2017 16:51:49 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> In comparison lsblk might output partition label and FS label.
> 
> Looking to blkid help
> 
>        -L, --label label
>              Look  up  the device that uses this filesystem label;
> this is equal to --list-one --output device
>              --match-token LABEL=label.
> 
> So, it can be PARTLABEL as well?
> 
> What the difference of LABEL vs. PARTLABEL for FAT?

LABEL - label of the filesystem
PARTLABEL - label of the partition, supported e.g. by GPT scheme (not by MBR)

So nothing which filesystems in libblkid can set or use.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com