why is e2label not recognising the partition labels in RHEL 4?
 

hi,
In RHEL4 system with a single hda hard drive, fdisk -l says that /dev/hda4 is an extended partition. now, when i try to do
e2label /dev/hda4, it gives this error:

e2label: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda4
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock

similary, fdisk -l says /dev/hda1 (with a * in the 'boot' column) is a W95FAT32. now, when i try to do
e2label /dev/hda1, it gives this error:

e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock

could someone pls tell me why is e2label not recognising the partition labels?

thnx.

e2label is designed to work only with ext2/ext3 filesystems