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

The most popular options are to use commands e2label or tune2fs used for changing label of

ext4, ext3 or ext2 type partitions:

# e2label /dev/sdf1 EXTLABEL

and/or

# tune2fs –L EXTLABEL /dev/sdf1

For other file filesystem, some less used in the linux environment:

NTFS
ntfslabel /dev/sdf1 NTFSLABEL

SWAP
mkswap -L SWAPLABEL /dev/sdf1

exFAT
exfatlabel /dev/sdf1 EXFATLABEL

reiserFS
reiserfstune –l FSLABEL /dev/sdf1

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