Re: Harddrive sorting

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 03:30:37PM +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2026-08-28 10:56, Michel Verdier wrote:
> > I mean when you create a partition table with fdisk you can label the
> > disk (if I remember well). Of course without partition table you can't
> > :)
> 
> e2label - Change the label on an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system
> 
> e2label /dev/sdax label_name

Careful here. You are replying to people who are talking about
PARTLABELs, which are labels for *partitions* and stored inside the GPT.

You however are talking about *filesystem* labels, and e2label/tune2fs
is the tool to mnanage that for the ext* filesystems. Each filesystem
has its own tool for this, and the data lives inside the filesystem.

Thanks,
Andy