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E2LABEL

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: March 2025
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NAME

e2label - Change the label on an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system

SYNOPSIS

e2label device [ volum-label ]

DESCRIPTION

e2label will display or change the volume label on the ext2, ext3, or ext4 file system located on device.

If the optional argument volum-label is not present, e2label will simply display the current volume label.

If the optional argument volum-label is present, then e2label will set the volume label to be volum-label. Ext2 volume labels can be at most 16 characters long; if volum-label is longer than 16 characters, e2label will truncate it and print a warning message. For other file systems that support online label manipulation and are mounted e2label will work as well, but it will not attempt to truncate the volum-label at all.

It is also possible to set the volume label using the -L option of tune2fs(8).

AUTHOR

e2label was written by Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu).

AVAILABILITY

e2label is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.