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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 30/8/2023 (self.newzealand)
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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

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[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A label is a property of the filesystem, on a particular partition. A name is a property in the GPT, so it resides outside of the filesystem/partition.

In the old days, when we were using MBR disks, we only had labels. The problem with labels is that they can be a bit inconsistent, with some filesystems only offering 11 character labels, some 15, some supporting only upper case (FAT) etc. With GPT disks, the name can be stored in the GPT itself, and has a char limit of 72, which gives more flexibility and consistency, regardless of the actual filesystem in use. But labels are still around for backwards compatibility reasons.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the background! It seema labels are still very much in use if that's the way I need to rename a partition so it shows with that label in the UI.