Re: LABEL only 1 device

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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 04:23:00PM +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, linux-btrfs,
> 
> maybe it's a big error using the commmand
> 
>   mkfs.btrfs -L xyz /dev/sdx1 /dev/sdy1 /dev/sdz1
> 
> (and so labelling many partitions) because each device/partition gets  
> the same label.
> 
> Mounting seems to be no problem, but (p.e.) "delete" doesn't kill the  
> btrfs informations shown with (p.e.) "blkid /dev/sdy1", especially it  
> doesn't delete the label.

   What do you mean by "delete" here?

   The label is a *filesystem* label, not a label for the block
device(s) it lives on, so it doesn't make much sense to talk about
putting an FS label on only one of the devices that the FS is on.

   Hugo.

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