It's I file system label so yes, you'll need to format. If there is no
partition will have to create a partition before you can do a mkfs gparted
should do all that for you
On May 5, 2014 7:47 PM, "Michael Havens" <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Mike. Does this error mean I need to format the drive?
>
> sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 Goodwill
> e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc1
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
>
> This is what 'mount' shows sdc1 to be:
>
> /dev/sdc1 on /media/bmike1/OpenELEC type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)
>
> and to format this and apply the label it would be:
>
> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdc1;e2label /dev/sdc1 Goodwill
>
>
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Mike Ballon <mike.ballon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> e2label
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a few flash drives. When I plug them in to my computer a name
>>> referring to that flash drive appears in the file manager. I have two
>>> questions: the first is how do I change that name? The second is how do I
>>> set that name when I format the drive?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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