diff --git a/example/bcachefs.nix b/example/bcachefs.nix
index 023822b5..2cef63a6 100644
--- a/example/bcachefs.nix
+++ b/example/bcachefs.nix
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
         content = {
           type = "gpt";
           partitions = {
-            vdd1 = {
+            vde1 = {
               size = "100%";
               content = {
                 type = "bcachefs";
@@ -93,6 +93,16 @@
           };
         };
       };
+
+      vdf = {
+        device = "/dev/vdf";
+        type = "disk";
+        content = {
+          type = "bcachefs";
+          label = "";
+          filesystem = "empty_label";
+        };
+      };
     };
 
     bcachefs_filesystems = {
@@ -137,6 +147,12 @@
         mountpoint = "/home/Documents";
         uuid = "64e50034-ebe2-eaf8-1f93-cf56266a8d86";
       };
+
+      # Example bcachefs filesystem without a label
+      empty_label = {
+        type = "bcachefs_filesystem";
+        mountpoint = "/empty_label";
+      };
     };
   };
 }
diff --git a/lib/types/bcachefs.nix b/lib/types/bcachefs.nix
index a1e00a15..5dd89e8e 100644
--- a/lib/types/bcachefs.nix
+++ b/lib/types/bcachefs.nix
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
       default = ''
         # Write device arguments to temporary directory for bcachefs_filesystem.
         {
-          printf '%s\n' '--label=${config.label}';
+          ${lib.optionalString (config.label != "") ''printf '%s\n' '--label=${config.label}';''}
           ${lib.concatMapStrings (args: ''printf '%s\n' '${args}';'') config.extraFormatArgs}
           printf '%s\n' '${config.device}';
         } >> "$disko_devices_dir/bcachefs-${lib.escapeShellArg config.filesystem}";
diff --git a/tests/bcachefs.nix b/tests/bcachefs.nix
index 84cd8d23..0da40451 100644
--- a/tests/bcachefs.nix
+++ b/tests/bcachefs.nix
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ diskoLib.testLib.makeDiskoTest {
     machine.succeed("mountpoint /home");
     machine.succeed("mountpoint /nix");
     machine.succeed("mountpoint /home/Documents");
+    machine.succeed("mountpoint /empty_label")
     machine.fail("mountpoint /non-existent");
 
     # Verify device membership and labels.
@@ -56,9 +57,15 @@ diskoLib.testLib.makeDiskoTest {
     machine.succeed("bcachefs show-super /dev/vda2 | grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*Label:[[:space:]]+group_a\.vdb2'");
     machine.succeed("bcachefs show-super /dev/vda2 | grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*Label:[[:space:]]+group_a\.vdc1'");
     machine.succeed("bcachefs show-super /dev/vda2 | grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*Label:[[:space:]]+group_b\.vdd1'");
+
+    ## !Warning! device /dev/vde1 in the example config shows up as /dev/vdd1 here
     machine.succeed("bcachefs show-super /dev/vdd1 | grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*Label:[[:space:]]+group_a\.vde1'");
+    ## !Warning! device /dev/vdf is the example config shows up as /dev/vde here
+    machine.succeed("bcachefs show-super /dev/vde | grep -qE '^Label:[[:space:]]+\(none\)'");
+
     machine.fail("bcachefs show-super /dev/vda2 | grep 'Label:' | grep -q 'non-existent'");
 
+
     # Verify format arguments.
     # Test that lza4 compression and background_compression options were set for vda2.
     machine.succeed("bcachefs show-super /dev/vda2 | grep -qE '^[[:space:]]*compression:[[:space:]]+lz4'");