Bug 120751 - disk partitioning: Unable to change old partition label while formatting
Summary: disk partitioning: Unable to change old partition label while formatting
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Enhancement
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Assignee: Thomas Fehr
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-10-06 20:17 UTC by Stanislav Brabec
Modified: 2005-10-10 09:04 UTC (History)
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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.