On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 04:34 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > (b) mtools has a program mlabel(1) which can add a label to a vfat > file system. Unfortunately, to operate on a device, that device > needs to be assigned a CP/M-style drive letter in > /etc/mtools.conf. For USB drives this is very unsatisfactory > because every time you plug in the drive, it might be somewhere > else in /dev. And don't forget to unmount the drive's file system > before using mlabel. I think you'd only have to do that the once when assigning it a name. Thereafter, the device should have that name until you change it. Unless you're in the habit of perpetually renaming it, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Having said that, I wanted to do this with a flashdrive on FC4, but couldn't get it to work. Subsequently I found my flashdrive to be seriously faulty, so I don't know if I couldn't set the name because the drive was duff, or some other reason. I don't have another drive to test with. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
