On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:20 -0500, rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I don't think I've placed a label on an external device after the > fact. What is the procedure? And does it have any harmful effects > on data on the device? With a FAT filing system, the easiest way is to use Windows to do it. Just right click and rename the drive. To do the same (rename a FAT filing system volume label) on Linux, requires using mtools (which you'll probably have to yum install). You'll have to configure a drive letter to apply to that drive (set in /etc/mtools.conf), then you use the mlabel command to change that drive letter's volume label. e.g. In the mtools.conf file you might have an entry like: drive f: file="/dev/sda1" Then you'd do something like the following to call it "timsdrive": mlabel f:timsdrive Either way, this only affects the drive name/label. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
