USB flash drives won't mount

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 14:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> you may be able to solve the problem giving the drive a "name". For an
>> ext2/3 partition, e2label works. For a FAT partition, it is easy to do
>> in Windows, but I am not sure how to do it in Linux except on a new
>> partition. (mkdosfs -n option.) 
> 
> The mlabel command allows you to label DOS-like things.  The manpage for
> it is a bit less than helpful in how you pick the drive to work on, you
> use a drive letter, like DOS, but something else configures what the
> letters refer to.  The /etc/mtools.conf file is used to associate a
> device on Linux with a DOS-like drive letter.
> 
Thanks Tim,
 I had forgotten the mlabel command. I will have to set up a drive
letter that points to the first USB flash drive just for labeling.
(Actually 4 entries for by USB card reader - each slot is a SCSI
device.) If I get some spare time, maybe I'll grab the code for
mlabel, and see if I can modify it to accept /dev entries directly.

Mikkel
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