On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Yep. I use e2label. Works fine with ext2 and ext3 partitions. One
> > command to read the label, another to write it. Easy.
>
> So, mkreiserfs --label My_Home /dev/hda5 will not wipe out my
> partition, right? I don't want to cause unnecessary harm to my
> machine . . .

mkreiserfs will in all likely-hood wipe out the file system on that
partition, as it's job is to make filesystems. The label is a nice
side-effect that it can do while making an fs

You want reiserfstune

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