[haiku] Re: Finding names of partitions?

  • From: Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:04:28 +1200

On 7 July 2014 13:28, Thomas Mueller <mueller6723@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I further explore Haiku through USB-stick installation from R1A4 anyboot 
> image, I see some irregularities in recognizing partition names/labels.
>
> First two partitions on hard drive: EFI system partition and another 7.8 GB 
> partition, both formatted FAT32, showed as no_name with "mountvolume -lh":
>
> Volume                           File System                   Size Mounted 
> At (Device)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> DW CDW03 ZEXR0-D00C0B            EFI GUID Partition Map     2794.5G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/raw)
> no_name                          FAT32 File System           700.0M 
> (scsi/0/2/0/0)
> no_name                          FAT32 File System             7.8G /dosc  
> (scsi/0/2/0/1)
> WD2G03                           <unknown>                    64.0K 
> (scsi/0/2/0/2)
> WD2G04                           <unknown>                   120.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/3)
> WD2G05                           <unknown>                   140.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/4)
> WD2G06                           <unknown>                     8.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/5)
> WD2G07                           <unknown>                   100.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/6)
> WD2G08                           <unknown>                   140.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/7)
> WD2G09                           <unknown>                    40.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/8)
> WD2G10                           <unknown>                   120.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/9)
> WD2G11                           <unknown>                     8.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/10)
> WD2G12                           <unknown>                   120.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/11)
> WD2G13                           <unknown>                   200.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/12)
> WD2G14                           <unknown>                    40.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/13)
> WD2G15                           <unknown>                    40.0G 
> (scsi/0/2/0/14)

I would hazard a guess that Haiku is asking for the name from the
FAT32 driver, given that it recognized the filesystem for those two
partitions, and that the name at the file system level is not set.
Perhaps it should be a bit smarter and fall back to the name at the
partition level.

Jessica

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