Partition labels involves adding a new "File System" top level menu. Volume label when reformatting a partition to a different file system.Ĭurrently this must be done in two separate steps, assuming that theįile system supports changing the volume label.ī) CREATE A NEW FILE SYSTEM TOP LEVEL MENUĪnother approach to lessen the confusion between volume labels and The above suggested properties window would enable us to remove theįollowing menu entries under the top level "Partition" menu:Īn added advantage to this method is that a user could specify a I think the following properties would be editable in this newįile system (i.e., reformat to a different file system) Other properties would become editable, and the window would require aĬANCEL button and logic added to the OK button to process what to do
Much of the current information in the window would remain read-only. However, this window could be renamed to Properties and enhanced toīecome a true properties window with some editable properties.
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I have two thoughts on how to approach this problem of labelĪ) ENHANCE PARTITION INFORMATION WINDOW TO BE PARTITION PROPERTIESĬurrently the partition information window is used for display only. I believe we will need to make some changes to the GUI to make the Since GParted incorrectly refers to volume labels as partition labels, This will likely cause confusion for users,Īnd should be addressed in the GParted GUI. With this suggestedĮnhancement we will also have real partition labels in the GPT GParted under the "Partition -> Label" menu. To setup a loop device with a disk image:Ĭurrently volume labels (or file system labels) are referred to in Using the disk image so that you can work with it in GParted. Regarding the test steps you listed above, you can setup a loop device
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Offer to write a patch is gracious, and would certainly beįollowing is a tip on using disk images via loop devices with GParted,Īnd an initial discussion of possible GUI options for this Hi Sinlu, thanks for pointing out this area for enhancement.
However, gparted does not display the name "hello" anywhere when opening the disk. # dd if=/dev/zero of=tmpdisk.img bs=1M count=64Īs gparted doesn't support raw images (it searches for tmpdisk.img1), you can write the image to disk using: Neither reading or changing/writing is supported. Partition names stored in partition table are independent from partition labels stored in the partition. Gparted does not support the partition name field in GPT partition table: Commands for gdisk to create a test gpt partition table
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