Tho change the drive label under linux one needs to install the mtools package (at least that is what it is called in Debian/Ubuntu). Read the man pages, it is not hard to use just not obvious.
If you have a windows PC you can change the label from Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Something or other. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Ralph Boland <[email protected]> wrote: >> Actually that name is generated from the UUID when there is no label. >> You can change the label to something more friendly. How you do this >> depends on the file system. FAT32 file systems can be a little tricky >> to do under Linux (it is doable just not intuitive). > >> You can also have a specific device mount to a specific place by using >> the UUID. For example, in my /etc/fstab > >> UUID=b0ad2056-d4db-48d1-8195-1247d1e5ad9e /opt/scratch xfs defaults 0 0 > >> This UUID belongs to a USB drive and whenever it is connected it will >> mount to that specific mount point. You can get the UUID from >> /dev/disk/by-uuid which are sym links to the actual device (eg. /dev/sdc1). > >> What file system is this drive? > > doing a ls -rlt inside /dev/disk/by-uuid gives: > > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-09-18 19:46 > b3924fd3-df9c-479e-ae73-8446409ec9eb -> ../../sda5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-09-18 19:46 > e8eb4fb5-c6b8-476a-9330-52cd9fe32079 -> ../../sda1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-09-23 14:02 3012-E8F4 -> ../../sdb1 > > This looks correct from what you have said. > > mount says: > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/e `fontenc' type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush) > > so type file type is vfat. > > So, I assume the name "e `fontenc'" is being picked up from somewhere > and I need to go there and change it. > > Or I can do what you said in /etc/fstab: > that is add line: > UUID=3012-E8F4 /media/flashDrive vfat defaults 0 0 > > Intalling the drive after adding the above line after inserting the drive > I get an error because it is not root attempting to mount the device. > > So I changed the line to: > > UUID=3012-E8F4 /media/flashDrive vfat user,exec,auto,suid, 0 0 > > Then, after creating directory /media/flashDrive (oops), it mounts, > Yeah! > > Thanks all. > > One final comment. Once I inserted the flash drive the desktop used to show > an > icon of a flash drive with the name 3012-E8F4. Then it icon showed e > `fontenc'. > Now it just shows: 4.0 GB FileSystem. > That's fine by me since I only have one flash drive but others with multiple > flash drives might like to know how to have the name of the flash > drive displayed. > > Regards, > > Rocky > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
