On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > +=item C<label> > + > +Give the disk a label. The label should be a unique, short > +string using I<only> ASCII characters C<[a-zA-Z]>. > > No support for digits etc.?
The underlying serial field supports digits and more (in fact it's really an arbitrary 20 byte buffer). However I excluded digits in this case because the usual Linux naming scheme for partitions is either: /dev/<name><partnum> where <name> ends in an alphabetic character (eg. /dev/sda) , else: /dev/<name>p<partnum> where <name> ends in a digit (eg. /dev/mmcblk0p1). If we allow people to use a label that ends in a digit then we'd (probably) need to abide by this convention too, which makes things complicated. I agree this is not ideal, but also we can relax this restriction later. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
