linux-kernel - Re: Linux & FAT32 label

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Message-ID: <20171122110352.lzzb7lwfx3cajij3@ws.net.home>
Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:03:52 +0100
From:   Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Andreas Bombe <aeb@...ian.org>, util-linux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrius Štikonas <andrius@...konas.eu>,
        Curtis Gedak <gedakc@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: Linux & FAT32 label

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 09:52:03AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> I can prepare patches for blkid (util-linux), but I do not like idea to
> have different algorithm how is read label in fatlabel and blkid. Both
> tools are used by different GUI programs and it is a bad if one GUI
> program on linux (e.g. GParted) tells you that label is A and another
> (e.g. KDE Partition Manager) that label is B. So I rather wait for final
> decision.

Maybe it's time to update all the GUI stuff to read LABELs and UUIDs
(and another attributes) from udev db.

    Karel

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