[H-GEN] listing ext2/3 (and other) partition volume labels

Michael Anthon michael at anthon.net
Fri Aug 8 09:32:15 EDT 2003


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Tony Nugent wrote:
> The e2label utility allows you to write new labels to ext2 partitions, so
> does tune2fs.  (mlabel for msdos volumes).
> 
> But neither seem to be able to _list_ any existing labels (which, to
> me, seems a silly omission that is an obviously useful thing).

belial:~# e2label /dev/sda1 boot
belial:~# e2label /dev/sda1
boot


ii  e2fsprogs            1.27-2               The EXT2 file system 
utilities and libraries.


Nuff said 8^)

Cheers
Michael


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