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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why did distro name carry over into label name of my ssd? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am a distro-hopper, have yet to find my thing. I've recently been trying out NixOS, but decided to give something else a try, so after a lot of digging i landed on this KDE spin, which is based of the Bluefin Project. However, after having installed it via your typical installation of ISO Writer -> USB -> Install. I saw, after I booted up the new OS, that "nixos" had remained in the label of my SSD. Was wondering if this is an intentional thing or a bug?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A drive label is just a string that can be set by any privileged process. Seems like this installation of the new distro didn't do that. Or you skipped a step in the install where you could have chosen the drive label.

If it is a bug in the installer or if you missed it, I can't tell.

But you can just change it in gparted or something else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes,

It should not affect the working of the disk as UUID is used for identification of the disk for booting OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Alright thanks, was just a little worried. But changed the label and all is good 👍