which label to use in mount?

Anton Sayetsky vsasjason at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 12:04:11 UTC 2015


17 дек. 2015 г. 5:42 пользователь "Warren Block" <wblock at wonkity.com>
написал:
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Anton Sayetsky wrote:
>
>> Labels are used when one wants to be independent of disk names and
>> partitions numbers. GPT has native support for labels, thus independent
of
>> filesystem or partition types. GPT labels are also not consuming space on
>> disk because that space already reserved. So if you'll make 200-sectors
>> partition and label it - you'll get 200 sectors available.
>> UFS labels stored in last sector of block device so consuming space.
>
>
> This is true of generic labels, but I'm fairly sure that UFS label
information is stored in filesystem metadata and takes no additional space.
Yep, my fault. Of course metadata.

> If a whole GPT partition is used for a single filesystem, either the GPT
label or the UFS label should work identically.
Maybe TS mounted same partition twice.


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