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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>,
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	Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>,
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Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS 
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:17:49 -0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > > I first suggested this use of the "last mounted on" field back in
> > > 1994, for the purpose of supporting auto-mounting on device "arrival"
> > > for removable media.
> > 
> > You should probably refer to it as your suggestion to rename "last
> > mounted on" to "volume label", since people seem to think you want it
> > to keep its original behaviour.
> 
> 8-).
> 
> It's string that doesn't need to be there; if the OS doesn't care
> about its contents, why should you?  8-) 8-).

I've found it useful when recovering trashed partition info to make sure
I've found the right superblocks.

Cheers,
-Peter
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