Flash drive name change -
John Austin
ja at jaa.org.uk
Sat Dec 26 17:52:42 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 12:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Among the Christmas gifts were two small flash drives with the name
> "HP v100w" which I would like to change but I haven't figured out
> how to do it without reformatting them.
>
> Presently the appear to be formatted vfat and show up as /media/HP
> v100w. The space in the name means I have to use quotes to address
> them. I would prefer to call them fd3 and fd4.
>
> I refuse to believe there's no way to do this from my Linux system.
> Perhaps someone can tell me how?
>
> Bob
>
>
I seem to remember using gparted for labelling MS formatted drives
You can use mtools (mlabel)but its a bit painful
John
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