Bug 120751

Summary: disk partitioning: Unable to change old partition label while formatting
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Found By: Other Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---

Description Stanislav Brabec 2005-10-06 20:17:14 UTC 
I have had a partiton name "data". I wanted to overwrite my data partition with
SuSE Linux. In expert mode I selected to format the partition. Partition was
formatted, but it inerits label "data" from previous one without any chance to
change it in YaST. Maybe better can be to create a new label, e. g. "SuSE
Linux", or "/usr" etc. or ask user.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-10-07 12:29:45 UTC 
What partition is this? ext/reiser or another fs?
Would be an enhancement then.
Comment 2 Stanislav Brabec 2005-10-07 14:15:11 UTC 
Original was reiser, new was reiser.

Maybe it's an enhancement, but while formatting for SuSE Linux, inheritance of
labels like "Redhat" or "Gentoo" can be confusing.
Comment 3 Thomas Fehr 2005-10-10 09:04:31 UTC 
Of course you can change the label in expert partitioner.
Select the partition, select "Edit" and in the dialog that pops up select 
"Fstab Options". Here you find the field for the filsystem label that you can
change to whetever seems appropriate.