On 03/25/2011 09:56 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Yes, mlabel is a part of Fedora. > But, the version of mlabel that Fedora provides does *not* support the > -i flag that the posted solution says to use. Perhaps the -i flag is > an Ubuntu only extension to their version of mlabel? So Aaron is > right, the posted solution is not useful to Fedora users. Dude, I AM a Fedora 13 user and it is useful to me. As far as I know it was on the install disks. Check it out: ----- media> rpm -qi mtools Name : mtools Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.0.12 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 1.fc13 Build Date: Tue 10 Nov 2009 04:40:26 AM EST Install Date: Fri 03 Sep 2010 08:17:40 AM EDT Build Host: x86-3.fedora.phx.redhat.com Group : Applications/System Source RPM: mtools-4.0.12-1.fc13.src.rpm Size : 317155 License: GPLv2+ Signature : RSA/SHA256, Thu 04 Feb 2010 09:15:59 AM EST, Key ID 7edc6ad6e8e40fde Packager : Fedora Project URL : http://mtools.linux.lu/ Summary : Programs for accessing MS-DOS disks without mounting the disks Description : Mtools is a collection of utilities for accessing MS-DOS files. Mtools allow you to read, write and move around MS-DOS filesystem files (normally on MS-DOS floppy disks). Mtools supports Windows95 style long file names, OS/2 XDF disks, and 2m disks Mtools should be installed if you need to use MS-DOS disks ----- September is back when I first installed F13. I showed how mlabel would NOT work for me UNLESS I used the -i option. If yours does not work with the -i option I'm sorry, I don't know why it doesn't. ----- But I went and tried dosfslabel again and this time with success: Here's what I did: As above, my first flash inserted is assigned to /dev/sdb1. First get set up: - plug the drive in - close gnome file browser without ejecting drive - from the command line as root do: umount /dev/sdb1 - the drive should still be listed as /dev/sdb1 Then get the present listing: root ~> dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 There are differences between boot sector and its backup. Differences: (offset:original/backup) 71:46/66, 72:4c/6c, 73:41/61, 74:53/73, 75:48/68, 78:47/67, 79:42/20 , 80:bf/20, 81:b6/20 Not automatically fixing this. FLASH_8GB�� That was is the present label as assigned earlier by mlabel: FLASH_8GB From the looks of that message, it appears that something was not quite "right" about the way mlabel relabeled it. Now assign a new label: root ~> dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 blah There are differences between boot sector and its backup. Differences: (offset:original/backup) 71:46/66, 72:4c/6c, 73:41/61, 74:53/73, 75:48/68, 78:47/67, 79:42/20 , 80:bf/20, 81:b6/20 Not automatically fixing this. root ~> dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 blah I note that dosfslabel assigned the label in lower case and did NOT padd it out to 11 characters! Now re-plug the drive: Gnome file browser opens showing the new drive label as the name! So does the mount point: root ~> ls -l /media lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 25 Oct 2 00:39 F13 -> /media/Fedora 13 i386 DVD drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 25 10:42 flash1 drwx------. 4 hlenderk hlenderk 32768 Dec 31 1969 blah root ~> ls /media/blah blah blah2 blah3 So that seems like a better solution. Thanks for prodding me to re-try it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
