Device can mean more than one thing, physical device, partition, md device, logical volume, etc.
Label is more narrowly defined to that of filesystems. MBR has no mechanism for labeling the disk itself or the partitions. So /dev/sda cannot have a label or a name. Whereas with GPT, there is a field for each partition to have a name, completely independent of the file system used. So if you really want physical devices given a name, the closest thing you have to that is GPT. On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:08 PM, hul...@t-online.de (Helmut Hullen) wrote: > Labelling via "btrfs filesystem label <device> <label>" works well. It's a bug. I'm able to reproduce it as well. The command language itself indicates its the fs that's to be labeled. "device" in this case maps a /dev/X device to a fs UUID. It always should apply to the file system. If you want to name your partitions, use GPT. Chris Murphy-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
