2 .\" Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved.
3 .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
5 .TH E2LABEL 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
7 e2label \- Change the label on an ext2/ext3 filesystem
16 will display or change the filesystem label on the ext2 filesystem located on
19 If the optional argument
23 will simply display the current filesystem label.
25 If the optional argument
29 will set the filesystem label to be
31 Ext2 filesystem labels can be at most 16 characters long; if
33 is longer than 16 characters,
35 will truncate it and print a warning message.
37 It is also possible to set the filesystem label using the
44 was written by Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu).
47 is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from
48 http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.