Label disks?

[yajo]

In the installation instructions, it seems recommended to identify disks by label (/dev/disk/by-label/nixos and friends).

It would be very nice if disko could add labels to disks when creating the filesystems.

[Baitinq]

I'll implement this as soon as #27 is merged

[Mic92]

I think #27 also add create options for mkfs to make this feasible.

[Baitinq]

@Mic92 I dont think you can use mkfs to label a partition, but I might be wrong on that.

EDIT: From what ive seen you need to either do it when you create the partition or using other tools such as e2label.

[Mic92]

Yeah I also think it needs to be done per filesystem:

Fileystem	package	set label	show label
ext2/ext3/ext4	e2fsprogs	sudo e2label /dev/sda1 NEUES_LABEL sudo tune2fs -L NEUES_LABEL /dev/sda1	sudo e2label /dev/sda1 sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
ReiserFS	reiserfsprogs	sudo reiserfstune -l NEUES_LABEL /dev/sda1	sudo debugreiserfs
JFS	jfsutils	sudo jfs_tune -L NEUES_LABEL /dev/sda1	sudo jfs_tune -l
XFS	xfsprogs	xfs_admin -L NEUES_LABEL /dev/sda1	xfs_admin -l
FAT	dosfstools	sudo fatlabel /dev/sdb1 NEUES_LABEL	sudo fatlabel /dev/sdb1
FAT	mtools	sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::NEUES_LABEL	sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 -s ::
NTFS	ntfs-3g (ab Ubuntu 11.10)	sudo ntfslabel /dev/sdb1 NEUES_LABEL	sudo ntfslabel /dev/sdb1
Swap	util-linux	sudo swaplabel -L NEUES_LABEL /dev/sda1	sudo swaplabel /dev/sda1

[yajo]

According to #30 (comment), a workaround for disk labeling is to use a GPT table and set the label as part-type.

[Lassulus]

This was done in #31