gpart(8) has functionality to change the label of an GPT partition.
This functionality works like it should, however, after a label change
the /dev/gpt/ entries remain unchanged. glabel(8) status output remains
unchanged. The change only takes effect after a reboot.
PR: 162690
Submitted by: sub.mesa@gmail, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>, ae
Reviewed by: allanjude, bapt, bcr
MFC after: 6 weeks.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9935
This class is used for detecting volume labels on file systems:
UFS, MSDOSFS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) and ISO9660.
It also provide native labelization (there is no need for file system).
g_label_ufs.c is based on geom_vol_ffs from Gordon Tetlow.
g_label_msdos.c and g_label_iso9660.c are probably hacks, I just found
where volume labels are stored and I use those offsets here,
but with this class it should be easy to do it as it should be done by
someone who know how.
Implementing volume labels detection for other file systems also should
be trivial.
New providers are created in those directories:
/dev/ufs/ (UFS1, UFS2)
/dev/msdosfs/ (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32)
/dev/iso9660/ (ISO9660)
/dev/label/ (native labels, configured with glabel(8))
Manual page cleanups and some comments inside were submitted by
Simon L. Nielsen, who was, as always, very helpful. Thanks!
