Subject: Re: bug#34389: GNU Parted 3.2 –Claimed: msdos disk labels do not support partition name

From: "Brian C. Lane" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:35:03 -0800

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:38:57PM +0100, Ricky Tigg wrote:
> Hi. *Parted* v. 3.2 claims *msdos disk labels do not support partition name*
> .Commands executed in interactive *Parted*-shell:
> 
> (parted) mklabel msdos
> (parted) mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
> (parted) name 1 USB
> Error: msdos disk labels do not support partition name.
> 
> I then had to rely on *Gparted* v. 0.33  for creating a *partition name*:
> 
> $ blkid | grep sdc
> /dev/sdc1: LABEL="USB" UUID="2b491b98-46e8-42fe-9e24-96e115532d99"
> TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="2c168f1d-01"

This is a filesystem label, not a partition name. MSDOS has no space in
the partition table to store names.

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)