Changing the label on a FAT partition?
This seems like a simple question, but I can't find a way to do it... How do I change the volume label on a FAT partition? Now that SuSE 9.3 mounts usb devices and the like on /media/VOLUME_LABEL, I want to change some of my devices to sensible names, but can't see how to do this without loading them in Windows, or re-formatting them. e2fs has the "e2label" program - is there an equivalent for Linux? - Korny -- Kornelis Sietsma e-mail: korny at my surname dot com
On Sunday 12 June 2005 08:18, Kornelis Sietsma wrote:
This seems like a simple question, but I can't find a way to do it... How do I change the volume label on a FAT partition? Now that SuSE 9.3 mounts usb devices and the like on /media/VOLUME_LABEL, I want to change some of my devices to sensible names, but can't see how to do this without loading them in Windows, or re-formatting them. e2fs has the "e2label" program - is there an equivalent for Linux?
mlabel, from the mtools package.
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 03:42, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 12 June 2005 08:18, Kornelis Sietsma wrote:
This seems like a simple question, but I can't find a way to do it... How do I change the volume label on a FAT partition? Now that SuSE 9.3 mounts usb devices and the like on /media/VOLUME_LABEL, I want to change some of my devices to sensible names, but can't see how to do this without loading them in Windows, or re-formatting them. e2fs has the "e2label" program - is there an equivalent for Linux?
mlabel, from the mtools package.
That must be a updated version. I tried that on a flash drive under 9.1 and it did not work. I use manual mounting under 9.1 and mount it as /media/FlashDrive -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
Kornelis Sietsma wrote:
This seems like a simple question, but I can't find a way to do it... How do I change the volume label on a FAT partition? Now that SuSE 9.3 mounts usb devices and the like on /media/VOLUME_LABEL, I want to change some of my devices to sensible names, but can't see how to do this without loading them in Windows, or re-formatting them. e2fs has the "e2label" program - is there an equivalent for Linux?
man mlabel
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Kornelis Sietsma