NAME

labelit − list or provide labels for file systems

SYNOPSIS

labelit [ −F FSType ] [ −V ] [ −o specific_options ] special [ operands ]

AVAILABILITY

SUNWcsu

DESCRIPTION

labelit is used to write or display labels on unmounted disk file systems. 

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

−F FSType Specify the FSType on which to operate.  The FSType should either be specified here or be determinable from /etc/vfstab by matching the special with an entry in the table.  If no matching entry is found, the default file system type specified in /etc/default/fs will be used. 

−V Echo complete command line. This option may be used to verify and validate the command line.  Additional information obtained using a /etc/vfstab lookup is included in the output. The command is not executed. 

−o FSType-specific_options
Specify FSType-specific options in a comma separated (without spaces) list of suboptions and keyword-attribute pairs for interpretation by the FSType-specific module of the command.

OPERANDS

The following operands are supported:

special name should be the disk partition (for example, /dev/rdsk/c0d0s6).  The device may not be on a remote machine. 

operands FSType-specific operands. Consult the manual page of the FSType-specific labelit(1M) command for detailed descriptions.  If no operands are specified, labelit will display the value of the labels. 

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0 Write or display of labels was successful. 

non-zero An error occurred. 

FILES

/etc/vfstab list of default parameters for each file system

/etc/default/fs default local file system type. Default values can be set for the following flags in /etc/default/fs.  For example: LOCAL=ufs

LOCAL: The default partition for a command if no FSType is specified. 

SEE ALSO

volcopy(1M), vfstab(4)
Manual pages for the FSType-specific modules of labelit

NOTES

This command may not be supported for all FSTypes.

SunOS 5.5/SPARC  —  Last change: 20 Mar 1995