recognizing an external hard drive in FC4

[Andy Green]

Tim wrote:
> Andy Green:
> 
>>YMMV but in KDE and Gnome in FC4 this stuff now works here
>>automagically.  The thing is recognized, a mountpoint like
>>/media/USBDISK is created automatically, and at least a link to mount it
>>placed on your desktop,
> 
> 
> 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.

You can use e2label to label ext2 and ext3 filesystems with a name, on
USB sticks or not.  For vfat, you can name the filesystem at creation
time with mkfs.vfat -n blah, AFAIK that's it.  At least dosfstools
package doesn't seem to provide any other obvious way.

-Andy
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