Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:01:40 +0100 | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: Linux & FAT32 label |
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On Wednesday 22 November 2017 12:03:52 Karel Zak wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 09:52:03AM +0100, Pali Rohár 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.
-- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com
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