On Thu 18 Jan 2024 at 00:57:07 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/17/24 22:44, gene heskett wrote: > > One thing that bothers me is there is no way the installers parted > > shows partition names for non-raid disks. To me that is a serious > > bug. It appears from the help that it can LABEL a partition but > > can't read that LABEL. > > When installing to UEFI/GPT, I am able to label partitions in the > Debian Installer, the labels are visible in the installer, and the > labels persist on disk after installation is complete.
Agreed, and that doesn't depend on UEFI; MBR/GPT disks show the same behaviour. But those are PARTLABELS. But it may be that Gene meant filesystem LABELs. Gene, to check/display the LABELs, just place, in turn, the highlight on the line for each partition, like: │ > #5 31.5 GB ext4 Viva-B ▒ │ press Return for it to display: │ Partition settings: │ │ │ │ Name: Viva-B │ │ Use as: Ext4 journaling file system │ │ │ │ Format the partition: yes, format it │ │ Mount point: / │ │ Mount options: defaults │ │ Label: viva05 ←←←←←← │ │ Reserved blocks: 5% │ │ │ │ Done setting up the partition │ where Name: ⇒ PARTLABEL and Label: ⇒ LABEL. Then select "Done setting up …" or <Go Back> to back out each time. Cheers, David.
