labeling (naming) partitions before install

[cwc]

I read the docs https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks
and Father time has got me. In other words I forgot.

I have partitioned my drive. /boot swap root /.
How or do I need to label them?

[pingtoo]

[szatox]

[ali3nx]

If you use cli parted the partition name label can be configured from parted cli shell

[cwc]

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[Hu]

szatox's answer addresses setting a label on a filesystem when you create the filesystem. ali3nx's answer addresses editing a partition label, which you could do at creation time or later. Some (maybe all?) filesystems can have their filesystem label updated after creation. The mechanism varies. For swap, use swaplabel. For ext4, use tune2fs. For other filesystems, consult their documentation (or ask here, and maybe a reader will know it).

As a recap on usage: LABEL= is implicitly about filesystem labels. PARTLABEL= is explicitly about partition labels. You can, if you wish, assign the same name as both a filesystem label and a partition label. You cannot use LABEL= to find a partition label, nor use PARTLABEL= to find a filesystem label. You must use the key=value type appropriate to the type of label you want. Additionally, the Linux kernel's root= command line parameter can natively process PARTLABEL=. If you want to use root=LABEL=my-root-label, you need an initramfs that can read that and locate a device to tell the kernel to mount. (findfs in the initramfs can make this easy.) Finally, note that when searching by label, the system may need to read all devices that might match. If some of these devices are very slow (such as optical media that must be spun up to be read, even if it isn't the label you seek), searching by label might be slow. You can use blkid to print (among other things) the label and partition label of all devices that blkid scans. This can also be abused as a quick check to see if you have slow devices that will make searching by label unpleasantly slow, since blkid will be slow when it reaches those slow devices.

[pietinger]

cwc,

there exists two kinds of Labels: A label for the file-system (LABEL) or a label for the partition (PARTLABEL). A PARTLABEL has an advantage: It will not change if you format a partition. (mkfs.<chosen type> -L <LABEL> /dev/device gives you a filesystem-label). Therefore I recommend always a PARTLABEL (if possible -> you need a GPT disk).

You can give the name of the Partlabel when creating the partitions:

[pietinger]

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