On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 16:07 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > To label a partition use "e2label /dev/sdaX myLabel". > > And just for completeness, usb thumbdrives can be labeled with mtools' > mlabel command. Doing so has the nice property of giving a meaningful > name to the mount point when the thumbdrive is plugged into f9 and > perhaps earlier. Ditto for CD's and DVD's labeled with "mkisofs -V > label".
On Fedora 9, mtools may not be installed on many systems, but you can use /sbin/dosfslabel for the same purpose, I believe. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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