Re: Linux & FAT32 label

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On Monday 16 October 2017 03:12:43 Andreas Bombe wrote:
> The other thing is completely ignoring the boot sector label, which I
> could have as a mode enabled by command line switch or environmental
> variable, or just outright make it the default. I'm not decided yet.
> 
> Another problem is whether to also ignore boot sector on setting label.
> Otherwise the sequence:
>   "set label on Linux" (both root and boot)
>   "change label on Windows" (root label is changed)
>   "remove label on Windows" (root label is deleted)
>   "view label on Linux" (no root label, use boot label)
> resurrects an old label.

There is also mlabel tool which is heavily used (e.g. by gparted GUI
application) and when setting new label it stores it to both location.

And because gparted is used on Linux, such situation as described above
can still happen.

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