Label

1. Word or group of words that identifies a drive such as floppy diskette drive, hard drive, CD-ROM or other disk drive. Label is also a MS-DOS command and Windows command line command used to change the label of the hard disk drive or floppy disk drive.

• Additional information about the label command can be found here.
• Information about displaying the label of a disk drive is found on document CH0001038.

2. Term used to describe a sticker placed on a computer floppy diskette, CD-ROM or other computer equipment to help identify that object.

3. In programming, a label is a reference point and/or command used to move easily throughout a program. See our goto definition for an example of how this may be used.

Also see: Goto, Programming definitions