Hi friends. i have had an external drive mounted without LABEL fo some time, nicely working in Doplhin, but I wanted to put it Label to see it as a nice name insted of numbers… I run : sudo xfs_repair -n /dev/sda1  ✔  5m 51s    [sudo] password f…

I searched for “check and repair xfs filesystem” Checking and Repairing an XFS File System 3.5. Repairing an XFS File System | Red Hat Product Documentation and many more results I have never used xfs and can’t give advice from experience.

Even after reading man xfs_repair I don’t know what the -L option will actually do. But I’m quite sure it doesn’t have anything to do with giving the file system a label. https://linux.die.net/man/8/xfs_repair Labeling can be done with xfs_admin, it seems: https://medium.com/shehuawwal/how-to…

removd tag and moved to Support as the question is not plasma specific

thank you for feedback. The issue is not so much with labeling, There are several Issues. For the moment I am no interested in LABELIN the disk. First is that mount point /dev/sda1 seem occupied and I cannot remove it. I cannot do umount, and secondly I wish to know if -L will remove all metadata…

[image] pBp_destiny: First is that mount point /dev/sda1 seem occupied and I cannot remove it. I cannot do umount, /dev/sda1 is NEVER to be used as mountpoint to mount a disk ! /dev/xxxxx is the name of the device itself, or of some partition of the device. So it is correct, that you can no…

[image] pBp_destiny: First is that mount point /dev/sda1 seem occupied and I cannot remove it. Like @andreas85 said: /dev/sda1 is the device partition itself There is no mount point for it visible in your output - it is therefore not mounted. /dev/sdb1 is mounted - it is mounted to /run/me…

I feel that some documentation is warranted… :stuck_out_tongue: :point_down: [image] [Tutorial] Working with additional 'drives' Tutorials Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ 1. INTRODUCTION Microsoft Windows started its life as a graphical user interface on top of MS-DOS, a…

I see my report is messy. I agree it is a mountpoint. Somehow, I am very loos at memorizing the basics. I don´t know why, given the fact that I have linuxes at home for a very long time now… sorry. I used it as it came as result of from the gparted when I choosed option for repair the partition…

[image] pBp_destiny: have had an external drive mounted without LABEL fo some time, nicely working in Doplhin, but I wanted to put it Label to see it as a nice name insted of numbers… so: you want to change the label - or give it a label because it doesn’t have one no need to repair anything…

Thank you. I do not wish to give it a Label. I changed my mind and decided not to label it, because the links in some apps did not updated automatically. It was actually on the way back (when I went from situation form label to without label) that I realize, that I cannot mount the drive with my d…

thank you. I did the -L command at the end. It look all ok. Thank you for your dedication. Thank you

Will xfs_repair -L option remove metadata to access all that has been stored ever on HDD?

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I feel that some documentation is warranted…