On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:43:12 +0100, Mick wrote:

> I have thought about using labels, but never really ventured into it (I
> think I tried it once on a server). Can I do it retrospectively on
> ext2, reiserfs and xfs, or is it going to erase the contents of the
> partition?

You can, see the man pages for the various filesystem tools, e.g.

tune2fs -L ROOT /dev/sda5


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Neil Bothwick

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