disks renamed in 8.04

[Derek Broughton]

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 22:17 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:

>> I was under the impression that if you changed the label of a disc it
>> wiped all the data. Is this not so? I don't want to try that tune2fs
>> thing if it is going to wipe out 500 GB of data.
> 
> Hello Ubuntu cracks and experts
> Yes, I too was under this impression that if one changes label of a disc
> under Linux ...
> ... like above ! ;-|

I'm pretty sure this hasn't been the case since the very early days of DOS,
but for a simple test, why not just create a filesystem, add some files to
it, and then change the label.
-- 
derek