Teaching hal about format/fsck/label changing

Pat Suwalski pat at suwalski.net
Tue Nov 13 09:14:06 PST 2007


Martin Pitt wrote:
> Your particular issue is covered in the spec: 'Renaming will fail with
> an appropriate error message if the current label appears in
> /etc/fstab (This is not the default and is discouraged).'

I think so. In the end, putting my regular user hat, I want to be able 
to rename the USB stick I plugged into the computer, and change that 
ugly "sda1" label on my Windows partition to something more descriptive.

--Pat


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