Re: Linux & FAT32 label

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Thu Nov 23 2017 - 04:01:51 EST


On Wednesday 22 November 2017 12:03:52 Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 09:52:03AM +0100, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > I can prepare patches for blkid (util-linux), but I do not like idea to
> > have different algorithm how is read label in fatlabel and blkid. Both
> > tools are used by different GUI programs and it is a bad if one GUI
> > program on linux (e.g. GParted) tells you that label is A and another
> > (e.g. KDE Partition Manager) that label is B. So I rather wait for final
> > decision.
>
> Maybe it's time to update all the GUI stuff to read LABELs and UUIDs
> (and another attributes) from udev db.

This is just one side of coin. Another is that these GUI applications
needs to set/change labels, UUIDs, ... What udev/blkid does not support.

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Pali RohÃr
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