Re: Partition labels in GRUB2 menu?

[Richard Owlett]

Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:42:13 -0500
> Richard Owlett <address@hidden> пишет:
>
> > During Debian installs I use manual partitioning.
> > I give the partition being created a meaningful label.
> > I would like that label to appear in Grub's menu.
> > How?
> >
> > E.G.
> > I currently have 4 flavors of Debian Wheezy installed (different
> > desktops).
> > Currently the menu shows long effectively meaningless string
> > followed by "cryptic" partition designator (sa6, sa7, sa8, or
> > sa9). I would like the designator to be meaningful (i.e. GNOME,
> > KDE, LXDE, or XFCE).
>
> You can simply edit grub.cfg.

That is what I do and wish to avoid.

> If you want grub.cfg to be generated
> automatically, you can modify files under /etc/grub.d and make them do
> whatever you want.

That sounds nice. BUT where/how to retrieve relevant partition label?