Re: Re: How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount?

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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.

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