[lug] /etc/fstab in the modern world

[Elyse M. Grasso]

On Saturday 23 October 2004 09:28 pm, David Anselmi wrote:
> P. Scott DeVos wrote:
> [...]
> > e2label <partition>
> > 
> [...]
> > That's all there is to it.  I would love to have a tool that listed all 
> > partitions with their labels, but I am not aware of such a tool and do 
> > not have time to write one myself.  If anyone knows of such a tool, 
> > please post here!
> 
> Huh.  This seems pretty close:
> 
> for part in /dev/hda* ; do sudo e2label $part 2>/dev/null ; done
> 
> Of course you can use your imagination in working out what to use 
> instead of /dev/hda* to get the appropriate partitions.  For example, df 
> gives a pretty good start at all your mounted partitions.
> 
> Dave
> 
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That command assumes that all the partitions you care about are ext2/ext3 
partitions.

Things like thumb drives, chip carriers and cameras are usually not ext2/ext3, 
and partitions on large external USB drives may not be.  Even some partitions 
on regular drives may not be ext2/ext3: I have an NTFS partition that cannot 
go away because I occasionally need to test things in Windows programs. 

And even if it is possible to re-format the thumb drive as ext2, I would not 
do so: a large part of its function is transferring data between systems, and 
for that VFAT provides the most flexibility.
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