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#1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 06:02 AM

Good day -

Can someone please explain the difference and usage of the filesystem
label (-l) and volume label (-v) in the mkfs command?

- Thanks
Tom

#2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 06:02 AM

"Tom" <tcarroll+google@chimesnet.com> wrote in message
news:1110388081.168107.38740@o13g2000cwo.googlegro ups.com...
> Good day -
>
> Can someone please explain the difference and usage of the filesystem
> label (-l) and volume label (-v) in the mkfs command?
>
> - Thanks
> Tom
>

No I can not, I have never used them, and according to the man page they
appear to do the same thing. If you create your lv with a useful name, then
use that lv for the filesystem, I see no reason for another names.
I.E.
df -k
/dev/lvlocal 1048576 605684 43% 1759 1% /usr/local
# lsfs -q /usr/local
Name Nodename Mount Pt VFS Size Options
Auto Accounting
/dev/lvlocal -- /usr/local jfs 2097152 rw
yes no
(lv size: 2097152, fs size: 2097152, frag size: 4096, nbpi: 4096,
compress: no, bf: true, ag: 64)

Maybe these labels have some use in some environment, but I have yet to need
them.
Doug

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