On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > +=item C<label> + +Give the disk a label. The label should be a unique, short +string using I<only> ASCII characters C<[a-zA-Z]>. No support for digits etc.?

On Fri, Oct 05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:32:58PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > No support for digits etc.? > The underlying serial field supports digits and more (in fact it's > really an arbitrary 20 byte buffer). However I excluded digits in > this case because the usual Linux naming scheme for partitions is > either: > > /dev/<name><partnum> > > where <name> ends in an alphabetic character (eg. /dev/sda) , else: > > /dev/<name>p<partnum> > > where <name> ends in a digit (eg. /dev/mmcblk0p1). > > If we allow people to use a label that ends in a digit then we'd > (probably) need to abide by this convention too, which makes things > complicated. I agree this is not ideal, but also we can relax this > restriction later. Isnt the above true only for kernel names, but not for persistant devicenames in /dev/disk/by-{id,name,label,foo}. I think the latter get "-partN" appended by udev.