How to read a disk label?


 
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Old 10-01-2010
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Hi there,

I'm wondering how to display a disk label (why not edit it but I don't need that yet).
I found several commands on forums like disklabel and diskinfo but I can't find them on my system and don't know the package they belong to.

Can you help me?

Cheers
Santiago
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Old 10-01-2010
What OS do you have?
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Old 10-01-2010
Sorry, I forgot to say Debian Lenny.
But I was thinking maybe there is a general command that worked on any UNIX-like OS.
 
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