Labeling a hard-drives under unix system gives a user a better way so organize block system’s devices. Labels are allowed within /etc/fstab files so instead of refering to a partition /dev/sda1 you can provide LABEL=MY_BACKUP . We are going to mention two ways on how to label partition.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-label-hard-drive-partition-under-linux