Hardy problems

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:31:29PM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:34 AM, David Vincent
> <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
> 
> >  what filesystem are they?  i seem to recall being able to change the
> >  label on ext2/3 without wiping my data but on fat16/32 everything is
> >  destroyed.
> >
> 
> I use ext3. I didn't know you could change the label. On the gnome
> partition editor if you try to change the label it says all data will
> be qiped out. Can anyone confirm this?

If it says so, I'd believe it.

On the other hand, there's a command-line program called e2label that
can change the label of ext2/ext3 filesystems without wiping any data.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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