Comments on: How to Change Linux Partition Label Names on EXT4 / EXT3 / EXT2 and Swap

By: Prakash Jose K

Prakash Jose K — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:01:51 +0000

In order to remove a disklabel for blank, you may run:

# e2label /dev/sda1 “” ⏎

By: Lev

Lev — Sun, 08 May 2022 10:55:56 +0000

exfatlabel may corrupt filesystem, especially if not umounted before removed.

By: kde35

kde35 — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:39:53 +0000

Hi, this is exactly what I was looking for, but, you have a couple of questions. i) you advise to unmount the partitions before changing labels for reiserfs, but not for ntfs or extfs. Did you just forget, or is it safe for these fs’s? ii) is there a cli utility to do this for hfs partition?

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:40:11 +0000

In reply to Melvin G. Lewis.

@Melvin,

Yes, it should be /dev/sda1, thanks for correcting..

By: Melvin G. Lewis

Melvin G. Lewis — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:04:26 +0000

1.) e2label has a missing forward slash in the example e.g. dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda1.