adding labels to linux partitions?

Hello,
soon i am thinking about dual booting fedora and vista 64bit.
currently have vista 64bit installed.
my windows partitions are labeled.
ive got "system" "data" and "backup"
i want to label my home partition when i dual boot so if i which to upgrade fedora later on i dont delete my home partition by mistake.
whats the easiest way to label a linux partition?

 

Not sure if this will help, but I found it Googling:

http://linux.about.com/od/ptn_howto/a/hwtptn07t00.htm

I've never done it myself though.....

 

Hi,

Well, for one thing, make sure you know what partition it (home) resides, regardless of its name. That way, there won't be any need for mistakes.

e2label /dev/hdXY labelname or e2label /dev/sdXY where XY are your hard drive, partition numbers (e.g. hda1, sdb6 etc).

tune2fs -L labelname /dev/hdXY (and sdXY).

Enjoy,
Mrk

 

For Vista to recognize Linux partition, it needs to see it and the only way it can is via this method at http://www.go2linux.org/accessing-linux-drive-ext-with-vista