On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Juergen Weigert wrote:

> I just did the ugly hack:
> echo '0000040: 0000 2951 1364 f04a 5720 3033 2d30 352d 3133' | xxd -c 18 -r - 
> /dev/sda1
> to put a copy of my filesystem label in the volume label.
> 
> Don't do this at home, kids!
> Anyone to make a nice script (including sanity checks!) for that?

function doslabel {
  echo "$1           " | dd bs=1 seek=71 count=11 conv=notrunc of=$2 2>/dev/null
}

doslabel "foo" /dev/sdb1

Sanity checks are for loosers. :-)


Steffen

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