(Documentation for the EXPERT Mode=XFS menu)

Mode=XFS Menu: [XFS journaled File System]

Set Volume info/status

Display/Edit Volume info like label and UUID to be used with mount

    This submenu offers several selections to Display or Edit 
    Volume properties like the volume label and UUID

    The label is a 16-character string, present in the superblock

    The UUID is a 16-byte unique identifier, used by Linux (on mounting)

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Set LinuxMnt Volume Label

Display/Edit the standard 16-character label in the superblock (for mount)

    This will present a small dialog to display and/or edit the
    Linux specific label, with a maximum length of 16-characters
    and located in the SUPERBLOCK

    This Linux label is used (on Linux) to identify the filesystem
    when mounting, instead of a devicename like /dev/sda1 or the
    cryptic UUID

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Display/Edit UUID string

Display and optionally edit the (Linux) UUID string value in the superblock

    This will display and optionally update the UUID string in
    the filesystems superblock.

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Make THIS partition Active

Make the currently selected PRIMARY the 'active' partition for MBR/BIOS boot

    This will make the currently selected PRIMARY partition the
    ACTIVE one for the disk.

    There should only be a single active partition on every disk.
    When the system starts, the BIOS will usually boot from
    the ACTIVE partition on the first disk.

    In IBM BMGR/LVM terms the active partition is called STARTABLE.

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Delete THIS partition

Delete the currently selected partition from the partition tables

    This will delete the partition that is currently selected to be
    deleted from the partition-tables. This will result in the space
    occupied by the partition becoming FREESPACE that can be used
    again to create new partitions.

    For primary partitions on LVM-systems, the related LVM-information
    is cleared as well, to avoid consistency problems later when a new
    partition is created at the same position.

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Display Superblock

Display the SUPERBLOCK structure for the currently selected filesystem

    This will display the contents of the filesystem superblock
    in a textual format matching the current filesystem type.

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Wipe filesystem Bootsector

Wipe the Bootsector, FIRST sector in a filesystem. Remove obsolete FS info

   This will wipe the bootsector (first sector) of the selected
   filesystem or partition.

   Can be useful to get rid of old formatting infomation
   that may confuse tools when trying to reformat.

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Reselect whole disk, FDISK

Unselect filesystem, reselect the same/first disk; enables Mode=FDISK menu

Menu item screenshot(s)

    This will UNSELECT the current object/filesystem, and reselect a
    whole physical disk, either the same disk as the partition was on,
    or the first disk present in other cases.

    This is a quick way to change to 'Mode=FDISK' and work on
    disk-level issues

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Created by Jan van Wijk:   Aug 2007, last update:   23-Oct-2022