PartitionLabel property

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Wed Oct 7 05:31:31 PDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 14:25, Davide Bettio <davide.bettio at kdemail.net> wrote:
> I can't understand what PartitionLabel property is meant to be.
> Usually labels are stored in the filesystem and moreover the most common
> partition table type hasn't got any support for labels.
> I suggest you to rename it to Label or to FilesystemLabel.

That the old and stupid MSDOS partitions don't support anything useful
is no reason not to support partition labels. You might want to read:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries_.28LBA_2.E2.80.9333.29

Kay


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