On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:35:08 +0200
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

> Le 27/04/2016 19:13, Steve Litt a écrit :
> > Not all filesystems have labels.  
>      For my information, could you list some? Every filesystem I ever 
> used to format disks had one (ext?, reiserfs, btrfs, vfat)

>

>      Didier

You can make one with fdisk or cfdisk or parted or gparted or similar.
Just fail to include a label.

This isn't just a theoretical thing, lots of people don't label their
thumb drives.

Another issue is a lot of thumb drives have the same label. I bet there
are millions with the label "backup".

SteveT

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