USB storage device names/renameing

Chris Rouch crouch at pobox.com
Fri Jan 21 14:22:34 UTC 2005


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:40:18 -0500 (EST)
"William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> Neil Dugan said:
> > I have two flash USB devices.  When mounted one is called 'A_' the
> > other'AJ' when I select the properties for these the 'name' widget
> > is ghosted. Can the name be changed?
> > If so how?
> 
> Assuming FC3, I believe those are the labels of the partition on the
> USB device.  I'm not sure off the top of my head how you would change
> that under Fedora (since they are normally fat32).

You should be able to use mlabel from the mtools rpm. 

Regards,

Chris




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