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From: Peter Ruskin <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing volume name of a FAT partition
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:20:24
Message-Id: 200508022215.57761.Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Changing volume name of a FAT partition by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tuesday 02 August 2005 19:38, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > Is there a way to set or change the volume name of a FAT
3 > partition without reformatting it? When using HAL with KDE or
4 > Gnome Volume Manager to display icons of USB devices, it uses the
5 > volume name, if present, as the icon text, so it would be useful
6 > to be able to change this to give a more meaningful label.
7
8 man mlabel
9
10 $ qpkg -f `which mlabel`
11 sys-fs/mtools *
12
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14 Peter
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17 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+. gcc(GCC): 3.3.5-20050130.
18 KDE: 3.4.2. Qt: 3.3.4.
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[gentoo-user] ReiserFS4 Ryan <ryan@×××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing volume name of a FAT partition Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>