Using linux e2label to label ext3 and ext2 partitions

In this tutorial you will be learning how to label your partitions. Labeling your partitions can be useful for you to easily identify what each partition is or does. It is a very simple and straightforward process.

In order to label your partitions you use the e2label utility. For instance, e2label <path_to_partition> <label_name>.

By convention, the label name should be the path to where you mount the partition. You can name the label anything you’d like though.

For this tutorial, I’m going to apply a label to my fourth partition.

e2label /dev/sda4 /data_mount

Notice I named my label /data_mount. This will allow me to easily identify the location of my fourth partition once I mount it to the /data_mount directory.

Send me a comment if you have any questions.

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