On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 12:06 +0930, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> Have we got a pain free method of relabelling Windows file systems, > >> yet? > > Rick Stevens: > > Uhm, "man mlabel"? > > Doesn't qualify as "pain free." > > You've got to assign a Windows drive letter to the device, first, before > you can use mlabel with it. And that's made even more complicated if > you have multiple removable devices. Not to mention that mlabel, nor > its man file, nor the mtools man file, tell you how to assign a drive > letter. The only clues seem to be in the /etc/mtools.conf file. > > Pain free means as simple as renaming a file or directory, just like > Windows lets you. Pop in the device, e.g. my camera's SD card, > right-click the icon that appears for it, and rename it. > > Not, insert device, plough through dmesg or /var/log/messages to find > the device it's recognised as, at this moment in time, then add some > unexplained configuration rule to assign a drive letter to it, then use > mlabel. > > Oddly enough, I can't find mlabel through yum. I'm sure I remember > being able to do yum install mlabel (or any other command I wanted to > install), in the past, and yum would find the package that held it for > me. I had to work out it was in the mtools package, some other way. > > The only other way I see to label a Microsoft formatted media seems to > be to reformat it, and that's a stupid thing to have to do. I'm > certainly not going to reformat the memory cards for my camera on the > computer, even if they were empty (which they're not). > > So, no, mlabel doesn't come even remotely close to pain free. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > I used gparted/F11 recently to format and label NTFS partitions on an external USB disk that is normally connected to a 32bit Vista laptop. No known problems - My neighbour is still speaking to me! "Something" also auto-mounts the two partitions under F11/XFCE when it is plugged in to my machine. John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
