you know..... I thought that may have been the problem but the partition was listed as 'sde1. I thought that if it was formatted Microsoft the device would have been 'sde'. but it was not. thanks for the help!

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> wrote:

Michael Havens http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20151203.184520.a1001ce5.en.html
> I'm trying to change the label on a usbdrive so....

> bmike1@c521 ~ $ e2label /dev/sde1 RedSanDisk

> [various problems ensue]

Are you sure the USB drive is one of {ext2, ext3, ext4}? If so, I've never had a problem with `e2label` in those cases. But if the drive format is FAT*, try `mlabel` or `dosfslabel`.

HTH, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
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