On 26/12/09 20:33, g wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
I have not been able to change it no matter what I tried. And gparted tells me I've
messed something up with it! After messing with gparted for a bit it tells me Partition
and File System are unallocated whatever that means, but it sounds bad!
Bob Goodwin wrote:
mkfs.msdos -n fd3 /dev/sdc1 seems to have done it!
good to know if i need to label a fat format.
snip
Before doing that it would no longer mount, once I ran mkfs it mounted when
plugged in.
did you run mkfs -t fat or are you meaning when you ran mkfs.msdos?
Fdisk said
On 27/12/09 10:30, g wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
Before doing that it would no longer mount, once I ran mkfs it mounted when
plugged in.
did you run mkfs -t fat or are you meaning when you ran mkfs.msdos?
mkfs.msdos
Fdisk said it was still formatted FAT32 so I haven't
Bob Goodwin wrote:
mkfs.msdos
ok. i was curious.
I was able to write to and read data from the flash drives when
done so I guess they are good. I did two of them, changed the names
to fd3 and fd4 instead of HP v100W.
that can work, as long as you do not get it mixed with 'fd = floppy
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 12:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Among the Christmas gifts were two small flash drives with the name
HP v100w which I would like to change but I haven't figured out
how to do it without reformatting them.
Presently the appear to be formatted vfat and show up
On 26/12/09 12:49, g wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
I refuse to believe there's no way to do this from my Linux system.
$ locate label|grep bin/
/sbin/dosfslabel
/sbin/e2label
/usr/bin/mlabel
/usr/bin/ppmlabel
$
run man dosfslabel and man mlabel for usage.
hth.
dosfslabel seems to
