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E2LABEL

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: January 1999
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NAME

e2label - Change the label on an ext2 filesystem

SYNOPSIS

e2labeldevice[new-label]

DESCRIPTION

e2labelwill display or change the filesystem label on the ext2 filesystem located ondevice.

If the optional argument new-labelis not present, e2labelwill simply display the current filesystem label.

If the optional argumentnew-labelis present, then e2labelwill set the filesystem label to benew-label.Ext2 filesystem labels can be at most 16 characters long; ifnew-label is longer than 16 characters, e2labelwill truncate it and print a warning message.

It is also possible to set the filesystem label using the-Loption of tune2fs(8).

AUTHOR

e2label was written by Andries Brouwer (aebAATTcwi.nl).

AVAILABILITY

e2labelis part of the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous ftp from tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.

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