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Re: bugzilla entries for XFS in Fedora Core 2 test 3

To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: bugzilla entries for XFS in Fedora Core 2 test 3
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 17:04:56 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: Seth Mos <seth.mos@xxxxxxxxx>, Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <409693EF.2080609@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:

> What's the limit of label length?

from the xfs_admin man page...

       -L label
            Set the filesystem label.  XFS filesystem labels can be at most 12
            characters long; if label is longer than 12 characters,  xfs_admin
            will  truncate  it  and  print  a warning message.  The filesystem
            label can be cleared using the special ``--'' value for label.

> I believe there's a setting in anaconda one can make and the bug
> could well be that anaconda doesn't honor that flag, but I believe
> it's there.

i've seen it there once, have not looked at fc2 anaconda.

in any case the reason florin was having trouble was not related to this,
he had old md superblocks on the devices, mkfs did not wipe them out,
and mount didn't scan them because of this.

-eric

> So either it's not set / set too high or it's not honored.
> 
> So what is the max length of the label?
> 
> // Stefan
> 
> 


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