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. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
