recognizing an external hard drive in FC4

[James Wilkinson]

Tim wrote:
> Do you know where it gets the default names from?  I had some annoying
> names used when connecting my USB bits (a flash drive, and a camera), so
> I'd rather use something more sensible.  Neither is really a "disk", and
> they both got given the same names.  I did find out that it'd use a FAT
> volume label if there was one, but I couldn't find a way of setting one
> in Linux.  I had to put the USB flashdrive into a Windows box to name
> it.

Does
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg05581.html
help?

James.

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