linux-kernel - Re: Linux & FAT32 label

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20171105145603.xbvst6slxa4pz34e@pali>
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