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Reference

1. Linux Partition HOWTO
2. How to Label hard drive partition under Linux
3. finding partition from LABEL

Label A Partition

list partition

df -a

show partition info

blkid /dev/sda1

e2label

label a partition

e2label /dev/sda1 "mylabel"

tune2fs

label a partition

tune2fs -L "mylabel" /dev/sda1

findfs

find the partition named the specific label

findfs LABEL=mylabel

use label in /etc/fstab

LABEL=mylabel /mount/point ext3 defaults 0 2