Flash drive name change -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 27/12/09 10:30, g wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>    
>
>> Before doing that it would no longer mount, once I ran mkfs it mounted when
>> plugged in.
>>      
> did you run "mkfs -t fat" or are you meaning when you ran "mkfs.msdos"?
>
>    


    mkfs.msdos


>> Fdisk said it was still formatted FAT32 so I haven't changed that yet.  I
>> guess the next thing will be to make certain I can still write to it as it
>> is.
>>      
> fdisk should know. and if you can not write to it, at least you will know
> what to do.
>
> btw, 'man mkfs.msdos' and 'man mkfs.vfat', both bring up 'mkdosfs', so i
> would guess prog is actually 'mkdosfs'.
>
>    

    I was able to write to  and read data from the flash drives when
    done so I guess they are good. I did two of them, changed the names
    to fd3 and fd4 instead of HP v100W.

    I also played with hexedit and I could change the name there also,
    tried changing it a couple of times and that seems to work.

    Bob